Title: CrawlWatch – AI Bot Insights Author: Monowar Hossain Published: September 7, 2026 Last modified: September 7, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3685313) ![](https://ps.w.org/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3685313) # CrawlWatch – AI Bot Insights By [Monowar Hossain](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kstmonowar/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights.1.0.0.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/) ## Description CrawlWatch shows you the invisible traffic: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google- Extended and 40+ AI crawlers visiting your WordPress site. * AI bot hits + which URLs they read * AI referrals (visitors coming from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude) * One-click llms.txt + ai.txt generator * robots.txt allow/block per AI bot (preview, no code) * Readiness Score 0-100 with ranked Quick Wins * 100% free, no upsell. Data stays on your server. IPs are hashed, never stored raw. No API key. No external service in V1. Lightweight: normal visitors cause zero extra queries. ### Privacy CrawlWatch logs AI crawler visits locally: time, bot name, visited URL, referrer domain, truncated user-agent, and SHA-256 hashed IP (IPv4 last octet and IPv6 /64 anonymized before hashing). Raw IPs are never stored. Retention is configurable ( default 30 days) and all data is deleted on uninstall if enabled in Settings. No visitor data leaves your site. ## Screenshots [⌊Overview dashboard with AI hits, bots, referrals and readiness score.⌉⌊Overview dashboard with AI hits, bots, referrals and readiness score.⌉[ Overview dashboard with AI hits, bots, referrals and readiness score. [⌊Bots table with filter, search and pagination.⌉⌊Bots table with filter, search and pagination.⌉[ Bots table with filter, search and pagination. [⌊llms.txt editor + robots.txt manager.⌉⌊llms.txt editor + robots.txt manager.⌉[ llms.txt editor + robots.txt manager. [⌊Settings with retention, privacy notice and danger zone.⌉⌊Settings with retention, privacy notice and danger zone.⌉[ Settings with retention, privacy notice and danger zone. [⌊AI-ready llms.txt served to crawlers.⌉⌊AI-ready llms.txt served to crawlers.⌉[ AI-ready llms.txt served to crawlers. [⌊llms-full.txt with full post content for deep AI context.⌉⌊llms-full.txt with full post content for deep AI context.⌉[ llms-full.txt with full post content for deep AI context. ## Installation 1. Upload the plugin folder to `/wp-content/plugins/` or install from Plugins > Add New. 2. Activate through the Plugins screen. 3. Go to CrawlWatch in the left menu and follow the 3-step setup. 4. Open `yoursite.com/llms.txt` to verify. ## FAQ ### Does this send data outside my site? No. Everything is stored locally in one table (`wp_crawlwatch_logs`). IPs are SHA- 256 hashed (IPv4 last octet and IPv6 /64 anonymized first). Zero external calls. ### Will it slow my site? No. Normal human visits do zero extra queries. Only detected AI hits do one insert. No CSS/JS on the frontend. ### How long are logs kept? Default 30 days (7/14/30/90/180 selectable). Daily WP-Cron auto-deletes older rows. ### Does it work without Yoast/RankMath? Yes. It only detects whether an SEO plugin is active (for the schema part of the score). No integration needed. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6908eb1c7debdbdddecdbda90b42ad295014537008cdd0609437894d313011a1? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Truly Amazing !](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/truly-amazing-25/)󠁿 [Shafayat Hossain](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shafayatbayezid/) September 8, 2026 Usually I use Google Analytics to identify our site visitors but never knew if my visitors were coming from AI chat or the AI chats are recognizing our site, I have used this plugin to check then and found amazing results. How many visitors and which AI chat bot visited our site, everything is under one dashboard.Thanks to the developer for this wonderful pluginOne improvement suggestion: please get the timestamp (timezone) from my WordPress setup, not fixed UTC. It will be more useful to know the exact visit time of the site [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “CrawlWatch – AI Bot Insights” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Monowar Hossain ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kstmonowar/) [Translate “CrawlWatch – AI Bot Insights” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0.0 * Initial release: AI bot + referral tracker (40+ crawlers), Overview dashboard with score + Quick Wins, Bots filter/search/pagination, llms.txt + ai.txt generator( no file writes), robots.txt AI allow/block manager, Settings (retention/privacy/ clear logs), 3-step setup wizard. 100% free, local-only, hashed IPs. ## Meta * Version **1.0.0** * Last updated **1 day ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.2 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Tags * [AI](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ai/)[analytics](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/analytics/) [bot](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bot/)[llms.txt](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/llms-txt/) [seo](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 1 5-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crawlwatch-ai-bot-insights/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Monowar Hossain ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kstmonowar/) ## Support Got something to say? 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