Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic

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Share 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.

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Reviewers 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.

1. ★★★★★ weboersma

   11mo 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.

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2. ★★★★★ nealumphred

   1.7y ago

   Easy to understand and set up. Keep on keepin’ on …

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3. ★★★★★ cotros

   1.8y 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.

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4. ★★★★★ Dennis Bareis

   2.0y 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.

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5. ★★★★★ hackrepair

   2.1y ago

   Please remind me in a month to provide an update on the performance of this plugin on a heavily visited website.

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6. ★★★★★ ghking

   2.2y 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!

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-03-27 900+ → 1K+ up after 64 days in tier
2. 2026-01-22 800+ → 900+ up after 48 days in tier
3. 2025-12-05 700+ → 800+ up after 62 days in tier
4. 2025-10-04 600+ → 700+ up after 6 days in tier
5. 2025-09-28 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2025-09-27 600+ → 700+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2025-09-26 700+ → 600+ down after 5 days in tier
8. 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).

• GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO 30K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• LovedByAI – Generative Engine Optimization, AI Search, GEO, AEO 900+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
• Markdown Mirror – llms.txt and .md always up to date 300+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags C
• Site Kit by Google – Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, Speed 5M+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag A
• MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy) 2M+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A
• WP Statistics – Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative 600K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag A

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Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic: 1K+ active installs, 4.8★ (6 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-25. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/dark-visitors