# What is Kymo

> Kymo is cookieless web analytics that tracks the humans on your site and the AI crawlers reading it, in one dashboard. The AI-visibility wedge, in one screen.

Canonical: https://kymo.in/docs/start/what-is-kymo
Last updated: 2026-07-21

Kymo is a field instrument for web analytics. It answers two questions at once: who visited, and which AI systems are reading you.

## The wedge

Search is moving into AI answers. When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity about your subject, those systems crawl your pages, and sometimes cite them, and sometimes send a human your way. Classic analytics tools cannot see any of that — they only count people, and they lump every bot into one "traffic" bucket or drop it entirely.

Kymo makes AI visibility a first-class metric. It tells you which crawlers fetched which pages, separates a live per-question fetch from a bulk index sweep, and confirms when a real person actually clicked through from an AI answer. That is the part no cookie-based tool gives you.

## What it also does

The ordinary analytics are all here, done cookielessly:

- Pageviews, referrers, countries, devices, and a real-time visitor map.
- Outbound clicks and goals — including revenue.
- No cookies, no consent banner, no cross-site identifier.

## How it works, in one line

One script tag on your site sends cookieless pageviews. Your server, or a thin snippet, forwards AI-crawler hits. Kymo classifies everything server-side and shows humans and machines side by side.

## Start

- [Install the script](https://kymo.in/docs/start/install).
- [Verify events arrive](https://kymo.in/docs/start/verify).
- [Read the bot taxonomy](https://kymo.in/docs/concepts/bots) — the reference that makes AI visibility legible.