Author

Francois Cardinaud

15 articles

CMO @ HoneyLog

HoneyLog vs. Botscorner: B2B Visitor ID vs. AI Traffic Intelligence

HoneyLog vs. Botscorner: B2B Visitor ID vs. AI Traffic Intelligence

Botscorner identifies the B2B companies behind your bot traffic for sales and licensing. HoneyLog cl...

Francois Cardinaud 26 Jun 2026
HoneyLog vs. Splunk: Purpose-Built vs. Build It Yourself

HoneyLog vs. Splunk: Purpose-Built vs. Build It Yourself

You can analyze AI traffic in Splunk if you build and maintain the detection yourself. Here's what t...

Francois Cardinaud 19 Jun 2026
HoneyLog vs. DataDome: Protection vs. AI Access Intelligence

HoneyLog vs. DataDome: Protection vs. AI Access Intelligence

DataDome blocks malicious bots and verifies AI agents in real time. HoneyLog measures AI access inde...

Francois Cardinaud 19 Jun 2026
Crawler vs. Scraper vs. Agent: A Field Guide to AI Bots

Crawler vs. Scraper vs. Agent: A Field Guide to AI Bots

Crawler, scraper, agent, they're not the same, and the difference decides what to do about each. A p...

Francois Cardinaud 19 Jun 2026
AI Visibility vs. AI Traffic Analytics: Two Halves of a Problem

AI Visibility vs. AI Traffic Analytics: Two Halves of a Problem

AI visibility tools show how you appear in AI answers. AI traffic analytics show what's being taken...

Francois Cardinaud 19 Jun 2026
Why robots.txt Won't Protect Your Content from AI

Why robots.txt Won't Protect Your Content from AI

Disallowing AI bots in robots.txt feels like protection. It isn't, as it is a request a growing shar...

Francois Cardinaud 19 Jun 2026
What Your AI Traffic Data Is Worth in a Licensing Negotiation

What Your AI Traffic Data Is Worth in a Licensing Negotiation

Publishers are signing AI licensing deals, but you can't value what you can't measure. Here's how yo...

Francois Cardinaud 19 Jun 2026
Block, Negotiate, or Monetize: A Framework for AI Traffic

Block, Negotiate, or Monetize: A Framework for AI Traffic

AI crawlers are hitting your content right now. Should you block, charge, negotiate, or allow them?...

Francois Cardinaud 19 Jun 2026
The AI Traffic Your Analytics Can't See, and Why It Matters

The AI Traffic Your Analytics Can't See, and Why It Matters

AI crawlers, scrapers, and agents are now a huge share of traffic to your content, and conventional...

Francois Cardinaud 19 Jun 2026
Cloudflare Blocks AI Bots by Default. Why Measure Them?

Cloudflare Blocks AI Bots by Default. Why Measure Them?

Blocking AI crawlers by default feels like a solved problem. It isn't. Here's what default blocking...

Francois Cardinaud 19 Jun 2026
honeylog vs cloudflare

HoneyLog vs. Cloudflare: Block AI Bots or Understand Them?

Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers at the edge. HoneyLog measures them at your origin. Here's how the two...

Francois Cardinaud 19 Jun 2026
AI crawlers accessing a publisher's content at the server level, invisible to standard analytics

AI Crawler Analytics for Publishers: 7 Things Media Companies Should Track

AI crawlers are reshaping how journalism gets discovered and most publishers can't see them. Seven b...

Francois Cardinaud 31 May 2026
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