Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic
Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors.
Track, control, and optimize your website for AI agents and bots
You have 40% more visitors than you think. Protect your content from unwanted AI scraping and crawling, and turn the rising wave of AI agents, LLM assistants, and other bots crawling your website into a new growth channel for your business. For full details, visit the Known Agents website.
1. Agent Analytics
Get realtime insight into the hidden ecosystem of crawlers, scrapers, and AI agents browsing your website.
- 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.
2. LLM Referral Tracking
Measure human conversions from AI chat and search platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and more.
- 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.
3. Automatic Robots.txt
Protect IP, reduce server cost, and save time by serving a robots.txt that updates continuously.
- 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.
Demos
Demos can be found on the home page.
Further Details
This plugin connects your website to Known Agents. It uses the Known Agents API to connect to your account and provide functionality.
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