Crawler Record logs the last time specific user agents (for search and AI chat/LLMs) accessed your content including:
- Google
- Bing
- ChatGPT (OpenAI)
- Claude (Anthropic)
- Perplexity
- DuckDuckGo
You can view this information:
- Admin page: a grouped list of all crawlers, with last seen time, last page, and robots status for the crawler.
- Admin Bar (front-end): quick-glance status for the current singular or URL context (no dropdowns in wp-admin).
- Per Page/Post: From the edit screen on any page or post, you can see that last time each crawler visited that page.
Robots-aware: The plugin checks your
robots.txt and evaluates
Allow/Disallow rules for a given path. If
Settings → Reading → “Discourage search engines” is enabled, all agents are shown as blocked with a prominent warning.
Performance-friendly by design: Write-throttling (default 10 minutes) and an auxiliary “last post ID per agent” record avoids heavy admin queries on large sites.
Privacy-friendly: Saves only bot visit timestamps and last URLs crawled — no personal data.
Learn
how to use this plugin.
Highlights
- Supports common user-agent variants for Google, Bing, OpenAI (ChatGPT), Anthropic (Claude), Perplexity, and DuckDuckGo.
- Robots status computed from local robots.txt (physical or virtual) without outbound requests.
- Clear UI with grouped sections, microsecond timestamps, and a small diagnostics toggle showing the matched robots group and rule.
Known limitations
- robots.txt wildcards (
*
) and end-of-line marker ($
) are not interpreted; matching is prefix-based only. Future versions may add full spec support.