Title: Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic Author: Known Agents Published: 09.06.2024 Last modified: 14.05.2026 --- Шукати плагіни ![](https://ps.w.org/dark-visitors/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3515974) ![](https://ps.w.org/dark-visitors/assets/icon.svg?rev=3468118) # Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic Від автора [Known Agents](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gavindarkvisitors/) [Завантажити](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/dark-visitors.1.32.0.zip) * [Деталі](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/dark-visitors/#description) * [Відгуки](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/dark-visitors/#reviews) * [Встановлення](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/dark-visitors/#installation) * [Розробка](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/dark-visitors/#developers) [Підтримка](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/) ## Опис Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors. ### Track, control, and optimize your website for AI agents and bots You have [40% more visitors than you think](https://knownagents.com/insights). Protect your content from unwanted AI scraping, and turn the rising wave of AI agents, LLM assistants, and other bots visiting your website into a new growth channel for your business. For full details, visit the [Known Agents](https://knownagents.com/) website. ### 1. AI Agent & Bot Analytics Get realtime visibility into the hidden ecosystem of crawlers, scrapers, and AI agents browsing your website * **Watch traffic from crawlers and scrapers as it happens**: Track the hidden activity of [all known artificial agents](https://knownagents.com/agents) visiting your website in real time. * **Replay AI agent navigation patterns**: Follow a single agent’s session as it navigates your website. Find where agents get stuck, identify dead ends, and help them complete their tasks. * **Catch bots spoofing legitimate agents**: Identify bad actors and unauthorized scrapers pretending to be legitimate agents like Googlebot or Bingbot. * **Never miss a bot traffic spike**: Stay informed when an agent’s traffic starts surging or overloading your server. * **Reveal which agents visit most, and which pages they target**: Break down bot traffic by page to understand what they’re interested in. * **Export reports to CSV**: Download agent activity reports for custom analysis. ### 2. LLM Citation & Referral Tracking (GEO, AEO) Measure citations and human click-throughs from AI chat platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini * **Increase citations in AI chat responses**: See which pages LLMs recommend most often. Double down on content that’s working. * **Find out which AI platforms are sending you traffic**: Measure how many humans are clicking through to your website from a citation. * **Export reports to CSV**: Download LLM referral reports for custom analysis. ### 3. Automatic Robots.txt & Bad Bot Detection Protect your content and reduce server cost by serving a robots.txt that updates continuously * **Set robots.txt rules for entire categories of bots**: Control access for entire agent categories including AI crawlers, scrapers, SEO bots, and more. One selection covers every current and future agent in that group. * **We track new bots, you don’t have to**: Your robots.txt is updated as new agents emerge, so you never have to manage them yourself or make manual edits. * **Block misbehaving crawlers and scrapers**: Detect and block bots that ignore your robots.txt rules using the WordPress plugin, or our automation detectors. ### Demos Demos can be found on the [home page](https://knownagents.com/). ### Further Details This plugin connects your website to [Known Agents](https://knownagents.com/). It uses the Known Agents API to connect to your account and provide functionality. By signing up, you agree to the [Terms of Service](https://knownagents.com/terms-of-service) and [Privacy Policy](https://knownagents.com/privacy-policy). Are you finding this plugin useful? Please [leave us a ★★★★★ review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/reviews/#new-post)! Questions or issues? [Ask us for help](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/). ## Скріншоти * [[ * See your hidden bot and AI agent traffic – Half your website’s traffic isn’t human anymore. Get the “Google Analytics for bots” and use it to grow * [[ * Track the activity of individual bots – Discover the pages each agent is most interested in, and how often it visits * [[ * Measure human referrals from LLMs – Analyze clicks from AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini * [[ * Increase citations in LLM responses – Double down on content that AI platforms are recommending * [[ * Find out where AI agents get stuck – Review common entry points, exit pages, and dead ends * [[ * Replay AI agent navigation patterns – Follow a single agent’s session as it performs a task on your website * [[ * Detect bad bots scraping your content – Catch unidentified, spoofed, and disallowed visits, set robots.txt rules by category * [[ * Reveal which pages are visited the most – Sort your pages by agent visits or human LLM referrals * [[ * Inspect and optimize any page on your website – Understand exactly how AI is engaging with your content, page by page * [[ * Watch everything happen in real time – Monitor every agent visit and human LLM referral in a live feed ## Встановлення 1. Install and activate the Known Agents plugin from the WordPress Plugin Directory 2. [Sign up](https://knownagents.com/sign-up) for Known Agents and [create a new project](https://knownagents.com/projects) for your website. 3. Copy your access token from the project’s settings page, then paste it into the access token field on the plugin’s configuration page. Your website is now connected to Known Agents. ## Часті питання ### How much of my website traffic comes from bots and AI agents? More than you think. On average, [40% or more of website visits](https://knownagents.com/insights) come from AI agents and bots, a volume that is completely invisible to traditional analytics tools like Google Analytics. This has been observed consistently across websites of all sizes and industries. ### Why should I care about bot and AI agent traffic to my website? AI agent traffic has a direct and growing impact on your business. It determines the following: * Whether bad actors and unauthorized scrapers are stealing your content * Whether your content is included in AI model training datasets * How accurately AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude summarize and recommend your content to users * How many humans are clicking through to your website from AI citations * Whether AI shopping agents can successfully complete purchases on your site * How your pages rank in traditional and AI-powered search engine results * How much server bandwidth and cost bot traffic consumes * Which AI agents have accessed your content, for licensing and negotiation purposes With AI adoption accelerating, bot traffic is becoming one of the most important segments to understand and optimize for. ### Is Known Agents free? Known Agents is a freemium service. The free tier gives you immediate visibility into your hidden bot traffic with no credit card required. You can upgrade to unlock higher event volumes, additional projects for multiple websites, CSV export, API access, and priority support. Full details are on the [pricing](https://knownagents.com/pricing) page. ### Do I need a Known Agents account to use this plugin? Yes. Creating an account is free and only takes a few seconds. This is where you’ll be able to see dashboards and insights into agent activity on your website. ### How do I block AI bots like GPTBot and ClaudeBot from my WordPress website? Known Agents makes it easy. Once the plugin is installed and connected, go to the plugin settings and check the categories of bots you want to block, such as AI Data Scrapers, AI Assistants, or AI Search Crawlers. Known Agents will automatically generate and maintain robots.txt rules covering every agent in those categories, including GPTBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), PerplexityBot, Bytespider (TikTok), and many more. The rules update automatically as new bots are discovered, so you never have to manage them manually. ### What is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)? GEO and AEO refer to the practice of optimizing your website to appear in AI-generated responses, such as answers from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, rather than traditional search engine results pages. Known Agents supports GEO and AEO by showing you which pages AI platforms are citing most often and measuring how many humans click through to your website from those citations. This lets you double down on content that’s already working and identify gaps where AI platforms aren’t recommending you. ### Which AI agents and bots does Known Agents track? Known Agents tracks thousands of known AI agents, web crawlers, and scrapers by inspecting the user agent string and other signals on each request. This includes GPTBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), PerplexityBot, Googlebot, Bytespider (TikTok), CCBot (Common Crawl), and many more. See the full [agent directory](https://knownagents.com/agents) for the complete list. ### How are the AI agents and bots categorized? Known Agents categorizes agents into distinct types to help you understand and control different kinds of bot traffic. These categories include AI Agents, AI Assistants, AI Data Providers, AI Data Scrapers, AI Search Crawlers, Archivers, Developer Helpers, Fetchers, Automated Agents, Intelligence Gatherers, Scrapers, SEO Crawlers, Search Engine Crawlers, Security Scanners, and Undocumented AI Agents. Each agent in our directory is classified into one of these categories. ### Is Known Agents compatible with RSL and other content monetization platforms? Yes. Known Agents can work as a useful complement to content monetization platforms and standards like RSL. It gives you visibility into which agents are accessing your content and whether they’re complying with your licensing terms. ## Відгуки ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/96660993ac012ddd55e2151996643c10f56864b64223b6568c6c9a617c132a78? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Very very helpful](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-very-helpful-19/)󠁿 [weboersma](https://profiles.wordpress.org/weboersma/) 24.09.2025 1 reply Very good: shows all bot-crawlers.Our website was sometimes down due to bot-crawlers, with this tool it is easy to solve. Very good logging of bots.This was the only good plugin I could find for this purpose.Some bots ignore robots.txt. So I manually changed htaccess, that worked very good. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/828be194b158eb9650a707521cfa24aab77b0c5c9962d1fed9fd3bc4d8b6f006? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Easy to understand and set up!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/easy-to-understand-and-set-up-5/)󠁿 [nealumphred](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nealumphred/) 30.11.2024 Easy to understand and set up. Keep on keepin’ on … ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2d008e71568293920c5ff75eb6cec1a564717c50538a526535a9f6fe77925b47? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Totaly very useful](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/totaly-useless-5/)󠁿 [cotros](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cotros/) 03.11.2024 5 replies Bingbot and googlebot are hitting my site with hundreds of visits per minute and Gavin from support spotted the problem immediately! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6cfc8c01f1ea3a75ec6f7dba8f2a014ef4cca4fd63a50fb3c8772e492e472ecc? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Very Useful Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-plugin-1574/)󠁿 [Dennis Bareis](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dbareis/) 21.08.2024 An easy improvement would be to link to the settings page from the plugin entry like other plugins, other than that, in general this plugin and its online dashboard is generally well thought out and useful. My website is small and has limited resources that get overrun by crawlers making it unavailable. This plugin helps identify the culprits and decide if I should block them or not. For free you can block them in robots.txt, as I have a physical file, the plugin won’t touch that but its easy to add manually. It will report those crawlers that ignore the robots file and the paid version will enforce those rules, but I just update “.htaccess” myself. I’m reducing my rating by a star since you won’t get much “Agent Analytics” (per month) and for my tiny site it quickly ran out, we are a NFP so don’t have money to burn on subscriptions. The the description for the plan incorrectly states “Unlimited Agent Analytics” when the plan only includes 100,000 events. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/69cd18347a081d15769e10464792fca52ae876189a55dfec326885fb304be6c2? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Begun my review…](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/begun-my-review/)󠁿 [hackrepair](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hackrepair/) 29.07.2024 1 reply Please remind me in a month to provide an update on the performance of this plugin on a heavily visited website. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/607b6f2a53911635739acaece39c019cbd4844998da8641bf7de9753a3f0ef22? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Super useful!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-useful-211/)󠁿 [ghking](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ghking/) 09.06.2024 This is a great plugin. I had no idea how many bots were visiting my website every day. Super interesting insights, and a handy way to keep my robots.txt up to date. Thanks! 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[Перегляньте код](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dark-visitors/), перегляньте [сховище SVN](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/dark-visitors/) або підпишіться на [журнал розробки](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/dark-visitors/) за допомогою [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/dark-visitors/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Журнал змін #### 1.32.0 * Code updates #### 1.31.0 * Code updates #### 1.30.0 * Code updates #### 1.29.0 * Code updates #### 1.28.0 * Changed name from Dark Visitors to Known Agents #### 1.27.0 * Code updates #### 1.26.0 * Code updates #### 1.25.0 * Code updates #### 1.24.0 * Code updates #### 1.23.0 * Code updates #### 1.22.0 * Code updates #### 1.21.0 * Added new agent types #### 1.20.0 * Screenshot and copy updates #### 1.19.0 * Code, design, screenshot, and copy updates #### 1.18.0 * Code updates #### 1.17.0 * Code updates #### 1.16.0 * Code updates #### 1.15.0 * Code updates #### 1.14.0 * Code updates #### 1.13.0 * Code updates #### 1.12.0 * Code updates #### 1.11.0 * Code updates #### 1.10.0 * Code updates #### 1.9.0 * Code updates #### 1.8.0 * Copy changes #### 1.7.0 * Design updates #### 1.6.0 * Code cleanup #### 1.5.0 * Simplified the analytics code #### 1.4.0 * Added the option to block agents #### 1.3.0 * Added a small edge case fix #### 1.2.0 * Updated copy #### 1.1.0 * Added the ability to disable analytics #### 1.0.0 * Initial release ## Мета * Версія **1.32.0** * Останнє оновлення **2 тижні тому** * Активних встановлень **1 000+** * Версія WordPress ** 6.0 або вище ** * Tested up to **6.9.4** * Версія PHP ** 7.0 або вище ** * Мови * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dark-visitors/) і [Italian](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/dark-visitors/). * [Перекладіть на свою мову](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/dark-visitors) * Позначки * [aeo](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/aeo/)[analytics](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/analytics/) [geo](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/geo/)[robots.txt](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/robots-txt/) [visibility](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/visibility/) * [Розширений перегляд](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/dark-visitors/advanced/) ## Оцінки 4.8 out of 5 stars. * [ 5 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 1 4-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/reviews/) ## Учасники * [ Known Agents ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gavindarkvisitors/) ## Підтримка Проблеми вирішені за останні два місяці: 0 з 1 [Перейти в форум підтримки](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/)