Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic
by Known Agents · Analytics
Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors.
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Health
B 81/100
Few reviews
Active installs
1K+
≈1.6K estimated
Momentum
-9%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “analytics”, “geo” and “visibility” for “crawlers”, “analyze” and “referral”. “analytics” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “crawlers” sits at #10 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “geo” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “analyze” sits at #11 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “visibility” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “referral” sits at #11 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
81 health vs 67 average across 1,826 Analytics plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →4.3%
of downloads still active
At least 1K of 23.4K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Analytics plugin keeps 1.2%, across 1,007 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Analytics plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 1 release in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
Recent review vibe
read from the latest 6 reviews to 2025-09-24Reviewers say it surfaces exactly which bots are hammering their sites, and one credits support with spotting the problem fast, with a small ask for a settings link from the plugins list.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Well optimized
Most to gain: Support resolution
Updated 171 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 6.9.11, the current branch or newer
4.8★ over 6 reviews, smoothed to 4.17★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
0 of 1 support threads resolved in the last 2 months
To rank higher: Mark more forum threads resolved — the resolved ratio feeds the ranking.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
41
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.0
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
26%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-0.3
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| scrapers | #1 | #3 | 0 |
| block scrapers | #2 | #4 | 0 |
| referral traffic | #3 | #7 | 0 |
| crawlers | #10 | #19 | 0 |
| analyze | #11 | #19 | down 3 |
| referral | #11 | #17 | up 2 |
| llm | #10 | #10 | down 1 |
| ai scrapers | #5 | #9 | up 1 |
| aeo your tag | #16 | #11 | 0 |
| agents | #19 | #19 | down 2 |
| crawler | #12 | #18 | 0 |
| track bots | #7 | #17 | up 2 |
| dark | #16 | #17 | down 2 |
| visitors | #22 | #22 | up 2 |
| dark web | #9 | #18 | — |
| traffic analysis | #16 | #19 | down 1 |
| go dark | #9 | #14 | up 1 |
| ai agents | #24 | #20 | down 1 |
| ai crawlers | #20 | #19 | 0 |
| block ai crawlers | #13 | #15 | down 1 |
| analytics your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| geo your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| robots.txt your tag | Not checked yet | ||
| visibility your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
91 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 66 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “analytics”, “geo” and “visibility” for “crawlers”, “analyze” and “referral”. “analytics” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “crawlers” sits at #10 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “geo” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “analyze” sits at #11 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “visibility” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “referral” sits at #11 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
- One page off on “aeo”. #16 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
Daily downloads
Since 10 Jun 2024 · 875 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 3K · peaks are release surges
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
1
releases in the last 12 months
6mo ago
latest release · v1.32.0 · 14 May 2026
1
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 78% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 7 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 60% of the way through.
Install history since 9 Jun 2024
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ weboersma1.1y ago
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.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ nealumphred1.9y ago
Easy to understand and set up. Keep on keepin’ on …
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ cotros2.0y ago
Bingbot and googlebot are hitting my site with hundreds of visits per minute and Gavin from support spotted the problem immediately! This topic was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by cotros.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Dennis Bareis2.2y ago
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. This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Dennis Bareis.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ hackrepair2.3y ago
Please remind me in a month to provide an update on the performance of this plugin on a heavily visited website.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ ghking2.4y ago
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!
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Share of voice
How often each assistant names Known Agents when asked about this topic, where it comes in the answer, and how that compares with its wp.org search position. Latest run 1 Nov 2026.
- Assistants
- ChatGPT, Claude
- Topics tracked
- AI agents
Readme readiness
7 of 8 pass · checked 30 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 9 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 9 of 9 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini.
- ✓ Headings and lists 6 headings and 3 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 2,970 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text All 5 tags appear in the text.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-03-27 900+ → 1K+ up after 64 days in tier
- 2026-01-22 800+ → 900+ up after 48 days in tier
- 2025-12-05 700+ → 800+ up after 62 days in tier
- 2025-10-04 600+ → 700+ up after 6 days in tier
- 2025-09-28 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-09-27 600+ → 700+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-09-26 700+ → 600+ down after 5 days in tier
- 2025-09-21 600+ → 700+ up after 44 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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Markdown Mirror – llms.txt and .md always up to date 300+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags C -
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WP Statistics – Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative 500K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag A
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