Title: AITooler Bot Analytics – AI Crawler Tracking & Visibility Author: aitooler Published: July 16, 2026 Last modified: July 16, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/aitooler-bot-analytics/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3610542) ![](https://ps.w.org/aitooler-bot-analytics/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3610542) # AITooler Bot Analytics – AI Crawler Tracking & Visibility By [aitooler](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aitooler/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/aitooler-bot-analytics.1.0.0.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/aitooler-bot-analytics/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/aitooler-bot-analytics/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/aitooler-bot-analytics/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/aitooler-bot-analytics/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/aitooler-bot-analytics/) ## Description AI assistants send real traffic now, but most site owners have no idea whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot or PerplexityBot ever visit their pages. Analytics tools ignore them. Server logs are a pain to read. AITooler Bot Analytics answers three questions from one screen: **1. Which AI bots are crawling my site?** The plugin recognizes 16 known AI crawlers and logs their visits into a table in your own WordPress database. You get a report showing visits per bot, the pages they hit most, and when each bot was last seen. Bots are grouped by what they actually do: model training (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot…), AI search indexing (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot…) and live user requests (ChatGPT-User, Claude-User — a real person asked an assistant to open your page). That last group matters. Those are potential readers and customers, not just crawlers. **2. Is my content readable for AI?** The plugin serves llms.txt and llms-full.txt at your site root — a structured index of your content following the llmstxt.org convention. No files are written to disk, nothing to upload over FTP. The output refreshes automatically when you publish or update content. **3. Who is allowed in?** A simple table lets you block individual bots via robots.txt rules. Maybe you want AI search engines to index you but prefer to keep training crawlers out. One checkbox per bot. #### What this plugin does NOT do * It does not send your data anywhere. There is no external service, no account, no API key, no telemetry. Visit logs live in your database and are pruned automatically after a retention period you choose. * It does not slow your site down. Logging is a single indexed insert with a deduplication check against the same table. There is no JavaScript on the front end. * It does not nag you with upgrade banners. #### Good to know * The robots.txt controls work when WordPress generates robots.txt dynamically. If a physical robots.txt file exists in your site root, it takes precedence — the settings page tells you if that’s the case. * robots.txt is a voluntary standard. Reputable crawlers respect it; obscure scrapers may not. * llms.txt is an emerging convention. Adoption by AI companies varies, but publishing one costs you nothing and several crawlers already fetch it. #### What makes this different from the existing 150+ plugins in this space? Most existing plugins only generate the llms.txt file. This one combines three things that are typically separate: crawler visit analytics (so you know what is actually happening), content exposure (llms.txt), and access control (robots.txt rules) — all local, all in one screen, no accounts or external services. Built and maintained by a site operator who got tired of grepping access logs to see whether AI bots had come by. ## Installation 1. Install through Plugins Add New, or upload the zip. 2. Activate. 3. Go to the Bot Analytics menu in the admin sidebar. 4. Check that yoursite.com/llms.txt loads. If it 404s, visit Settings Permalinks and click Save once. Crawler data starts appearing as soon as a known bot visits. On an indexed site this usually happens within days. ## FAQ ### Where is the visit data stored? In a single table (`wp_atba_visits`) inside your WordPress database. Nothing is transmitted anywhere. Old rows are deleted automatically — 90 days by default, adjustable from 7 to 365. ### Does this track my human visitors? No. Only requests whose User-Agent matches a known AI crawler are logged, and only the bot name, URL path and timestamp are stored. No IP addresses, no cookies, no personal data. ### My llms.txt shows a 404 Re-save your permalinks once (Settings Permalinks Save Changes). If it still fails, another plugin or a physical file may be intercepting the URL. ### Can I exclude certain content from llms.txt? Choose which post types are included on the settings page. Developers can filter the output with `atba_post_types`, `atba_index_limit` and `atba_full_limit`. ### Will blocking a bot in robots.txt actually stop it? Major crawlers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity and others) publicly commit to honoring robots.txt. Unknown scrapers may ignore it — blocking those requires server-level rules, which is outside what a plugin can reliably do. ### Does it work with caching plugins? Yes. Bot logging runs in PHP, so fully cached pages served by a CDN or page cache before PHP loads won’t be logged. The llms.txt endpoints send plain text with their own caching and work fine behind common cache setups. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “AITooler Bot Analytics – AI Crawler Tracking & Visibility” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ aitooler ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aitooler/) [Translate “AITooler Bot Analytics – AI Crawler Tracking & Visibility” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/aitooler-bot-analytics) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/aitooler-bot-analytics/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/aitooler-bot-analytics/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/aitooler-bot-analytics/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/aitooler-bot-analytics/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0.0 * First release. Bot visit logging for 16 AI crawlers, virtual llms.txt / llms- full.txt endpoints, per-bot robots.txt control, dashboard widget, automatic log retention. ## Meta * Version **1.0.0** * Last updated **14 hours ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 5.8 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.0.1** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Tags * [ai bots](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ai-bots/)[ai visibility](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ai-visibility/) [bot tracking](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bot-tracking/)[robots.txt](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/robots-txt/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/aitooler-bot-analytics/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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