Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic
| 开发者 | gavindarkvisitors |
|---|---|
| 更新时间 | 2026年2月24日 08:40 |
| PHP版本: | 7.0 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 6.9 |
| 版权: | GPLv3 |
| 版权网址: | 版权信息 |
详情介绍:
- Monitor traffic from crawlers and scrapers: Track the hidden activity of all known artificial agents visiting your website in real time.
- Analyze how AI agents browse your website: Review sessions from AI models autonomously navigating and interacting with your website. Optimize their experience to increase conversions and human referrals.
- Detect bots spoofing legitimate agents: Identify bad actors and unauthorized scrapers pretending to be legitimate agents like Googlebot or Bingbot.
- Get alerted to bot traffic spikes: Stay informed when an agent's traffic starts surging or overloading your server.
- See which agents visit most frequently and which pages they target: Break down bot traffic by agent and URL to understand where crawlers and scrapers are focused.
- Export reports to CSV: Download agent activity reports for custom analysis.
- Find out which AI platforms are sending you traffic: See which LLMs are recommending your website and measure how many humans click through to visit.
- Export reports to CSV: Download LLM referral reports for custom analysis.
- Block crawlers and scrapers by category: 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.
- Stop tracking new bots manually: Your robots.txt is updated as new agents emerge, so you never have to manage them yourself or make manual edits.
- Enforce robots.txt rules with the WordPress plugin: The WordPress plugin detects and blocks bots that ignore your robots.txt rules, protecting your content from unauthorized access.
安装:
- Install and activate the Known Agents plugin from the WordPress Plugin Directory
- Sign up for Known Agents and create a new project for your website.
- Copy your access token from the project's settings page, then paste it into the access token field on the plugin's configuration page.
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常见问题:
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.
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 page.
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 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 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.
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 your content is included in AI model training datasets
- Whether AI shopping agents can successfully complete purchases on your site
- How accurately AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude summarize and recommend your content to users
- How your pages rank in traditional and AI-powered search engine results
- How much server bandwidth and cost bot traffic consumes
- Whether bad actors and unauthorized scrapers are stealing your content
How much of my website traffic comes from bots and AI agents?
More than you think. On average, 40% or more of website visits 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.
更新日志:
- Changed name from Dark Visitors to Known Agents
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- Added new agent types
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- Simplified the analytics code
- Added the option to block agents
- Added a small edge case fix
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- Added the ability to disable analytics
- Initial release