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 turn the rising wave of AI agents, LLM assistants, and other bots visiting your website into a new growth channel for your business. For full details, visit the Known Agents website.
1. AI Agent & Bot Analytics
Get realtime visibility into the hidden ecosystem of crawlers, scrapers, and AI agents browsing your website
- Watch traffic from crawlers and scrapers as it happens: Track the hidden activity of all known artificial agents visiting your website in real time.
- Replay AI agent navigation patterns: Follow a single agent’s session as it navigates your website. Find where agents get stuck, identify dead ends, and help them complete their tasks.
- Catch bots spoofing legitimate agents: Identify bad actors and unauthorized scrapers pretending to be legitimate agents like Googlebot or Bingbot.
- Never miss a bot traffic spike: Stay informed when an agent’s traffic starts surging or overloading your server.
- Reveal which agents visit most, and which pages they target: Break down bot traffic by page to understand what they’re interested in.
- Export reports to CSV: Download agent activity reports for custom analysis.
2. LLM Citation & Referral Tracking (GEO, AEO)
Measure citations and human click-throughs from AI chat platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini
- Increase citations in AI chat responses: See which pages LLMs recommend most often. Double down on content that’s working.
- Find out which AI platforms are sending you traffic: Measure how many humans are clicking through to your website from a citation.
- Export reports to CSV: Download LLM referral reports for custom analysis.
3. Automatic Robots.txt & Bad Bot Detection
Protect your content and reduce server cost by serving a robots.txt that updates continuously
- Set robots.txt rules for entire categories of bots: 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.
- We track new bots, you don’t have to: Your robots.txt is updated as new agents emerge, so you never have to manage them yourself or make manual edits.
- Block misbehaving crawlers and scrapers: Detect and block bots that ignore your robots.txt rules using the WordPress plugin, or our automation detectors.
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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