Where to see SE Spiders in Google Analyitcs

googlebot, etc

[sniffer]

How can I see if googlebot, msnbot, slurp etc etc have visited using Google Analytics? I have looked everywhere..

[encyclo]

They're not there - Google Analytics uses on-page Javascript, which is not supported by search engine spiders. Google Analytics can only measure browser visits, and then only when JS is not disabled by the end user.

You will need to use a server log analysis tool to see spider activity.

[sniffer]

ahh thanks encyclo that makes sense :)