What is Perplexity-User?
Perplexity-User is the fetcher Perplexity uses when a person's question needs a page. It fetches on a person's request, not on a crawl.
- Operator
- Perplexity
- Class
- Fetches pages to answer a question
- Verification
- Published networksDevTune checks that each request comes from Perplexity's own network, using the address ranges, DNS names or network routes Perplexity publishes. A request it can't match isn't counted as verified.
On your site
It requests a page when a person's request needs it, not on a crawl. AI Traffic counts its page requests as answer fetches.
AI Traffic setup
Connect a crawler sensor (Cloudflare pull, edge middleware or a Vercel log drain) to see which pages Perplexity-User requests on your site.
Set up AI Traffic