Once your integration is installed, the last step is to confirm data is flowing. Rankly watches for your first event and shows you exactly what it saw.

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Send a test request

From your terminal, hit any page on your verified domain with a bot user-agent: 
curl -A "GPTBot/1.0" https://your-domain.com/
This makes a request that looks like the OpenAI crawler. Your integration captures it and forwards it to Rankly.

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Watch it land

In onboarding, Rankly polls for new events and shows the first one within a minute. You will see:
  • The time the event arrived
  • The host and path that was requested
  • The user-agent and the bot name Rankly matched (for example GPTBot)
  • The category (training, search-index, live-fetch, and so on)
  • The IP and whether the identity verified
Events in the Rankly dashboard
When you see your test event with the bot name and an IP verification result, your integration is live. Real agent traffic will start appearing as crawlers visit your site.

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If nothing appears

Edge deploys (Vercel, Netlify, CloudFront) can take a few minutes to roll out globally. Wait, then send the test request again.
Events for unverified domains are dropped. Make sure the host you tested is the one you verified.
The test must use a recognized bot user-agent. GPTBot/1.0 works. A plain browser request from your own machine is treated as human traffic and may not show in the bot view.
See Troubleshooting, email support@tryrankly.com, or book a call and we’ll connect your site with you live.

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What’s next

Read your dashboard

Trends, top pages, top crawlers, and LLM referrals.

Bot coverage

See every agent Rankly recognizes.