AlmaWeb

Two sides of AI traffic, one powerful plugin.
With the rise of AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, your website faces two new realities: 
1. AI bots scraping your content for training and indexing 
2. Real human visitors discovering your site through AI tools and clicking through to visit
AlmaWeb AI Visitor Analytics is the only WordPress plugin that tracks BOTH:
AI Bot Detection 
Identify bots from major AI companies (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, Amazon), SEO crawlers (Ahrefs, Semrush), aggressive scrapers, and even “stealth” bots hiding behind standard User-Agents. Detect GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Gemini, Bytespider, Perplexity and 200+ more.
AI Referrer Tracking 
Track real human visitors coming FROM AI platforms! When someone asks ChatGPT a question and clicks a link to your site, you will see it. Understand which AI tools are sending you traffic, which pages they land on, and how diverse your AI traffic sources are.
<h4>Why AlmaWeb AI Visitor Analytics?</h4>
In a world where AIs massively consume AND distribute web content, it is crucial to know:
<ul>
<li>Who’s scraping your content – Precisely identify each AI bot (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Gemini, etc.)</li>
<li>Whether ChatGPT is training on your data – Detect OpenAI crawlers in real time and block them if needed</li>
<li>Which pages are being targeted – Discover what content interests AI bots the most</li>
<li>Hidden bots – Detect even bots that mask their identity with standard User-Agents (stealth detection)</li>
<li>Which AI platforms send you traffic – Track human visitors referred by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, etc.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
🔍 Multi-Level Bot Detection
<ul>
<li>Level 1 – User-Agent: Detects 200+ AI bot signatures (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, xAI, Mistral, Cohere, Perplexity, DeepSeek, and more)</li>
<li>Level 2 – IP Range: Verifies official IP ranges from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to catch masked bots</li>
<li>Level 3 – Stealth Detection: Detects invisible bots like ChatGPT Atlas that use standard browser User-Agents by cross-referencing IP addresses</li>
</ul>
📊 Comprehensive Dashboard
<ul>
<li>Real-time statistics (human visits vs bots)</li>
<li>Evolution charts with Chart.js</li>
<li>Distribution by AI family (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, etc.)</li>
<li>Top 10 most active bots</li>
<li>Top 10 most scraped pages</li>
<li>Comparison with previous period</li>
<li>Business KPIs: growth rate, peak hours, intent distribution</li>
</ul>
📋 Detailed Logs
<ul>
<li>Advanced filtering by bot type, IP, date</li>
<li>Real-time search</li>
<li>Full CSV export</li>
<li>Complete details: User-Agent, IP, URL, detection method, AI family, bot intent</li>
<li>Special badge for “invisible” bots</li>
</ul>
⚙️ Flexible Configuration
<ul>
<li>Enable/disable tracking</li>
<li>Bad bot blocking option (disabled by default)</li>
<li>Configurable data retention (90 days by default)</li>
<li>Automatic daily cleanup of old data</li>
<li>Exclude logged-in users (optional)</li>
</ul>
🔒 Privacy Respectful
<ul>
<li>No data sent to third-party services</li>
<li>All data stays in your WordPress database</li>
<li>GDPR compliant</li>
<li>No cookies or client-side tracking</li>
<li>Only downloads public data (IP ranges)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Detected Bots</h4>
The plugin detects over 200 different bots in the following categories:
AI Bots (AI Training & Inference): 
OpenAI (GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, Operator, ChatGPT Agent), Anthropic (ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, Claude-SearchBot), Google AI (Google-Extended, Gemini, NotebookLM, GoogleAgent-Mariner), Meta AI, Amazon (Amazonbot, Bedrock, Nova Act), Apple Intelligence, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI (Grok), Cohere, DeepSeek, Character.AI, Kagi, Exa, Tavily, Apify, and 150+ others.
Search Engines: 
Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Baidu, etc.
SEO Crawlers: 
Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz, Majestic, etc.
Scrapers & Malicious Bots: 
Content scrapers, email collectors, attack bots, etc.
<h4>Advanced Stealth Bot Detection</h4>
Some AI bots like ChatGPT Atlas use standard browser User-Agents (Chrome, Safari) to go unnoticed. AlmaWeb AI Visitor Analytics detects them by cross-referencing IP addresses against official IP ranges from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google — all stored locally, no external calls required.
Example: 
A visitor with User-Agent “Mozilla/5.0 Chrome/…” from an IP in the OpenAI range will be identified as “ChatGPT Atlas” and marked with an “INVISIBLE” badge in the logs.
<h4>Firewall — Block Unwanted Bots</h4>
Since v1.2.0, the plugin includes a built-in Firewall to block bots before they access your content:
<ul>
<li>Block by intention — Stop training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot), scrapers, or inference bots</li>
<li>Block by family — Block all bots from a specific company (ByteDance, Meta, OpenAI, etc.)</li>
<li>Blocked bots receive a 403 response and are still logged for analysis</li>
</ul>
<h4>Performance</h4>
<ul>
<li>Zero external calls: IP ranges for OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are stored locally</li>
<li>Minimal impact: Optimized to not slow down your site</li>
<li>Optimized queries: Indexes on all important columns</li>
<li>Automatic cleanup: Daily deletion of old data</li>
</ul>
Protect your content and understand your traffic like never before.
<h3>Official Plugin Page</h3>
Visit the official plugin page for additional resources and support: 
https://almaweb.fr/ai-visitor-analytics
<h3>Privacy & Data Protection</h3>
AlmaWeb AI Visitor Analytics takes your privacy seriously:
<h4>Data Storage</h4>
<ul>
<li>All data is stored locally in your WordPress database</li>
<li>No external services receive any data from your site</li>
<li>You have full control over data retention (configurable from 1 to 365 days)</li>
<li>Automatic daily cleanup removes old data based on your settings</li>
</ul>
<h4>What Data is Collected</h4>
The plugin collects the following information for each visit: 
* User-Agent string 
* IP address 
* Requested URL 
* HTTP referrer 
* Request method (GET, POST, etc.) 
* HTTP headers (Accept, Accept-Language, Accept-Encoding) 
* Timestamp
This data is used solely for bot detection and traffic analysis on your own site.
<h4>GDPR Compliance</h4>
<ul>
<li>No cookies are set by this plugin</li>
<li>No client-side tracking or JavaScript-based analytics</li>
<li>IP addresses are stored for bot identification purposes only</li>
<li>You can configure data retention to comply with your privacy policy</li>
<li>Users can request data deletion through standard WordPress data export/erasure tools</li>
</ul>
<h4>What This Plugin Does NOT Do</h4>
<ul>
<li>Does NOT send your data to external servers</li>
<li>Does NOT track end-user behavior for advertising</li>
<li>Does NOT use third-party analytics services</li>
<li>Does NOT set cookies</li>
<li>Does NOT require user consent (server-side logging only)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Third-Party Services</h3>
This plugin may connect to the following third-party services only to download publicly available bot IP ranges:
<h4>OpenAI IP Ranges</h4>
<ul>
<li>GPTBot: https://openai.com/gptbot.json</li>
<li>ChatGPT-User: https://openai.com/chatgpt-user.json</li>
<li>SearchBot: https://openai.com/searchbot.json</li>
</ul>
Purpose: Verify IP addresses to detect OpenAI bots, including stealth bots like ChatGPT Atlas 
Data sent: None – the plugin only downloads public IP range information 
Caching: IP ranges are cached for 24 hours to minimize requests 
Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/privacy
<h4>Important Notes</h4>
<ul>
<li>No data from your site is ever sent to these services</li>
<li>The plugin only downloads publicly available IP range lists</li>
<li>These requests happen server-side (not from visitors’ browsers)</li>
<li>IP ranges are cached locally for 24 hours</li>
<li>If the external service is unavailable, the plugin continues to work using User-Agent detection</li>
</ul>
<h4>Bundled Libraries</h4>
Chart.js v4.5.1 (bundled locally) 
* Used for dashboard visualizations 
* No external connections required 
* Loaded only on admin pages 
* License: MIT
All third-party code is included in the plugin and does not require external CDN connections.
<h3>Support & Documentation</h3>
<h4>Getting Help</h4>
If you need help with the plugin, here are your options:
<ol>
<li>Documentation: Check the plugin settings page for inline help and tooltips</li>
<li>WordPress Support Forum: Post your questions on the WordPress.org support forum</li>
<li>Official Page: Visit https://almaweb.fr/ai-visitor-analytics for contact and support</li>
</ol>
<h4>Reporting Bugs</h4>
If you find a bug, please report it on the WordPress.org support forum with: 
* WordPress version 
* PHP version 
* Steps to reproduce the issue 
* Any error messages you’re seeing
You can also contact us directly through our official page at https://almaweb.fr/ai-visitor-analytics
<h4>Feature Requests</h4>
We welcome feature suggestions! Please submit them on the WordPress.org support forum or contact us through https://almaweb.fr/ai-visitor-analytics
<h3>Contributing</h3>
This plugin is open source and welcomes contributions!
<h4>Translation</h4>
The plugin is available in French and English. To add a new language:
<ol>
<li>Copy <code>languages/almaweb-ai-visitor-analytics.pot</code></li>
<li>Translate using Poedit or similar tool</li>
<li>Save as <code>almaweb-ai-visitor-analytics-{locale}.po</code> and compile to <code>.mo</code></li>
<li>Contact us through https://almaweb.fr/ai-visitor-analytics to submit your translation</li>
</ol>
<h3>Credits</h3>
Developed by: Yohan Ziri 
Company: AlmaWeb (https://almaweb.fr) 
License: GPLv3 or later
Special Thanks: 
* Chart.js for beautiful visualizations 
* The WordPress community for feedback and support 
* All users who help improve the bot detection library

AlmaWeb AI Visitor Analytics

Detect GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Gemini and 200+ AI crawlers. Track which AI bots scrape your content and block unwanted scrapers.

Codersly

Codersly Visitor Tracker is a privacy-aware WordPress Visitor Tracking Plugin that helps site owners understand how visitors, pages, referrers, devices, and bots interact with their website from inside the WordPress admin area.
The plugin records visitor activity in a dedicated custom database table and displays useful visitor analytics through a dashboard and searchable visitor list. You can review page views, landing pages, current pages, referrers, browser information, visit times, and visitor type without sending visitor analytics data to Codersly.
Codersly Visitor Tracker is built for WordPress site owners, bloggers, developers, agencies, and small businesses who need lightweight visitor tracking, local visitor logs, bot detection, referrer tracking, and basic traffic insights directly in WordPress.
The plugin is free and fully functional. All included features are available immediately after activation. Optional add-on information screens may be shown only to describe features available in a separate Pro add-on; those screens do not contain disabled controls, license checks, or Pro feature code.
Why use this WordPress Visitor Tracking Plugin?
<ul>
<li>Track visitor activity inside WordPress without relying on a hosted analytics dashboard.</li>
<li>See useful visitor logs, including referrers, landing pages, current pages, browser name, and visit time.</li>
<li>Understand human visitors, suspected bots, verified bots, and unknown traffic.</li>
<li>Keep visitor records stored locally in your own WordPress database.</li>
<li>Use lightweight page-view beacons designed for simple WordPress traffic tracking.</li>
<li>Exclude selected logged-in user roles from tracking.</li>
<li>Enable optional approximate location lookup only when your site policy allows it.</li>
</ul>
Main features
<ul>
<li>WordPress visitor tracking dashboard with visitor counters</li>
<li>Visitor list with filtering and pagination</li>
<li>Human, suspected bot, verified bot, and unknown visitor classification</li>
<li>Raw referrer, referrer host, referrer type, landing page, current page, browser name, and visit time recording</li>
<li>First-touch referrer and landing-page recording using lightweight browser storage</li>
<li>Tracking settings, privacy settings, approximate location lookup settings, and role exclusions</li>
<li>Local database storage for recorded visitor activity</li>
<li>Lightweight beacon fallback for quick browser visits</li>
</ul>
What can you track?
Codersly Visitor Tracker can record key visitor analytics data such as page path, landing page, current page, referrer, referrer host, browser name, user agent, IP address, visit time, and bot-detection fields. If approximate location lookup is enabled by the site administrator, the plugin may also store approximate location fields returned by the configured GeoIP provider.
Privacy-focused local analytics
This WordPress visitor tracking plugin stores visitor data locally in your WordPress database. It does not send visitor analytics data to Codersly. Approximate location lookup is disabled by default and only runs when the site administrator enables it.
<h3>Optional add-on information</h3>
A separate Codersly Visitor Tracker Pro add-on may be available from Codersly outside WordPress.org. That separate add-on is not included in this WordPress.org plugin package.
The free plugin may show informational add-on screens, similar to feature comparison pages, so site administrators can see which additional screens are provided by the separate add-on. These screens are informational only: they do not include disabled controls, hidden feature code, license gates, report engines, export actions, campaign tracking engines, live monitoring engines, or cleanup actions.
The separate add-on may provide additional admin screens and workflows such as advanced analytics, live visitor monitoring, campaign reports, export tools, and data cleanup tools. These add-on features are provided by a separate plugin package outside WordPress.org and are not part of this submitted free plugin.
Learn more about the separate add-on at: https://codersly.com/product/codersly-visitors-tracker-pro-wordpress-plugin-license/
<h3>Privacy</h3>
This plugin stores visitor data locally in the WordPress database. It may store visitor IP address, user agent, page path, referrer, browser name, approximate location fields, visit time, and bot-detection fields.
The plugin does not send visitor analytics data to Codersly.
Approximate location lookup is disabled by default. If the site administrator enables approximate location lookup, the visitor IP address may be sent in the background to an external GeoIP provider selected by the plugin/provider filter. The result is cached locally to reduce repeated requests.
Site owners are responsible for updating their privacy policy and obtaining any consent required by their local laws before enabling tracking or external location lookup.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin can optionally connect to external GeoIP services to look up approximate visitor city/country from an IP address. This feature is disabled by default and only runs when the site administrator enables approximate location lookup.
When enabled, the visitor IP address is sent to the selected GeoIP provider during a background lookup after a visit is recorded. The service returns approximate location data such as country, city, latitude and longitude when available.
Supported GeoIP providers:
<ul>
<li>ipwho.is – used for approximate IP location lookup. Terms: https://ipwhois.io/terms, Privacy Policy: https://ipwhois.io/privacy</li>
<li>ip-api.com – optional approximate IP location lookup provider. Terms: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal, Privacy Policy: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal</li>
<li>DB-IP – optional approximate IP location lookup provider. Terms: https://db-ip.com/tos.php, Privacy Policy: https://db-ip.com/privacy.php</li>
</ul>

Codersly Visitor Tracker

Privacy-aware visitor tracking for analytics, visitor logs, referrers, pages, devices, and human/bot classification.

AlmaWeb AI Visitor Analytics vs Codersly Visitor Tracker