by Known Agents 4.8 (6 reviews)

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

Name: Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic
Rating: 4.8 (6 reviews)
Author: Known Agents

Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors.

Known Agents ranks #6,777 among WordPress.org plugins with 1,000+ active installations, is #158 of 1,977 in the Analytics category, a 4.8/5 rating from 6 reviews, and was last updated May 14, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.9 (Current: 7.1)

v1.32.0 Current Version v1.32.0

Updated 4 months ago Last Update on 14 May, 2026

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.32.0
Last Updated: May 14, 2026
Requires WP: 6.0+
Tested Up To: 6.9
PHP Version: 7.0 or higher
Author: Known Agents

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Reviews: 6
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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to monitor and manage AI bots, crawlers, and LLM traffic on their website. It provides real-time analytics on bot activity, tracks LLM citations and referrals, and generates an automatically updated robots.txt to block unwanted scrapers.

Real-time crawler and scraper tracking
Replay AI agent navigation sessions
Detect bots spoofing legitimate agents
Bot traffic spike alerts
Breakdown of traffic by page
Export reports to CSV
LLM citation and referral tracking
Automatic robots.txt generation

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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.

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

Whether AI shopping agents can successfully complete purchases on your site

With AI adoption accelerating, bot traffic is becoming one of the most important segments to understand and optimize for.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.