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.

unsourcedapp

AI assistants now answer the questions your readers used to type into Google, often using your content. Are they citing you, or sending people to a competitor? Unsourced is the WordPress plugin for <a href="https://unsourced.app" rel="nofollow ugc">Unsourced</a>, the evidence layer for AI search, also known as GEO (generative engine optimization), AEO (answer engine optimization), or AI SEO.
Unsourced shows independent publishers and content creators which AI assistants cite them, who is really crawling their site, and whether their fixes actually move the needle, backed by verified evidence, not the inferred “AI visibility scores” most tools sell.
Server-side bot detection: catches the bots that skip JavaScript
Most analytics tools are blind to AI crawlers because bots like GPTBot and ClaudeBot never execute JavaScript. This plugin runs inside WordPress at the PHP level, checks every request against 22 known AI bot signatures, and logs each visit to your Unsourced dashboard with zero impact on page load time. The server-side layer is what actually catches AI crawlers, and the plugin adds no JavaScript to your pages.
Bot Trust: verified, impostor, or unverifiable
Anyone can put “GPTBot” in a User-Agent string. Unsourced verifies each crawler’s true identity against the operator’s published IP ranges and forward-confirmed reverse DNS (FCrDNS), then sorts every visitor into Verified, Impostor, or Unverifiable, with honest, copy-paste block rules. You see who is genuinely OpenAI or Anthropic, and who is just wearing the badge.
AI citation monitoring: are they citing you or a competitor?
Beyond crawl detection, Unsourced runs weekly citation checks across 7 AI models, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity. It generates high-intent questions tailored to your actual content topics (the same kind of questions your audience types into AI assistants), then checks whether the AI cites your domain or sends users to a competitor instead.
Every check is logged: which AI platform, which prompt, whether you were cited, what context surrounded the mention, and which competitor domains appeared instead. You get a clear picture of your AI search presence across all 7 models Unsourced monitors.
Origin Signal: live crawl or training data?
When an AI assistant’s answer reproduces your wording, Unsourced checks whether a verified AI crawler (caught by this plugin’s server-side detection) actually fetched that page in the same window. If it did, the citation is backed by a live crawl rather than older training data. Each match is logged with a timestamp and the scan window it belongs to.
Combined with your bot-visit logs and citation results, that gives you a documented, timestamped record of live use of your content, a starting point for licensing conversations or escalation.
Measured lift: did your fix actually work?
When Unsourced flags a gap (a topic where AI recommends a competitor instead of you) and you act on it, you can mark it actioned. Unsourced then re-checks that exact topic about a week later and tells you whether your citations actually moved: measured evidence of a change, not a promise. No causation is overclaimed; you simply see the before and after.
What you see in your dashboard:
<ul>
<li>Which AI bots visited, which pages, and how often, and which are Verified, Impostor, or Unverifiable</li>
<li>Your citation rate across all 7 AI models: ChatGPT, ChatGPT (web search), Claude, Gemini (grounded search), Grok, Meta Llama and Perplexity</li>
<li>Which competitor domains are cited instead of you, and for which topics</li>
<li>Whether each citation came from a live crawl of your page or from older training data</li>
<li>Whether a fix you actioned produced measured lift on its topic</li>
<li>Weekly AI Visibility Audit and Evidence Report PDFs, generated from your live data</li>
</ul>
Detected bots (22 signatures): 
* GPTBot, ChatGPT-User & OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI) 
* ClaudeBot & anthropic-ai (Anthropic) 
* PerplexityBot & Perplexity-User 
* CCBot (Common Crawl) 
* Google-Extended, GoogleOther, Google-CloudVertexBot 
* Bytespider (ByteDance / TikTok) 
* cohere-ai, Diffbot, Amazonbot, YouBot 
* Meta-ExternalAgent 
* Applebot-Extended 
* omgilibot, PetalBot, Timpibot, BrightBot
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin sends data to Unsourced (https://unsourced.app), an external service that logs and displays AI bot activity and citation intelligence for your site. A connection to this service is required for the plugin to function.
What data is transmitted:
<ul>
<li>Your site URL</li>
<li>The URL of the page being visited by the bot</li>
<li>The detected bot name and raw User-Agent string</li>
<li>The visitor IP address</li>
</ul>
When data is sent:
Only when a valid Unsourced API key has been configured in the plugin settings. Bot event reporting fires only when a request matches a known AI bot signature, sending the details above. The plugin also contacts Unsourced when you connect and verify your account, sending your site URL and API key. Human visitors are not affected by bot reporting.
Service links:
<ul>
<li>Website: https://unsourced.app</li>
<li>Terms of Service: https://unsourced.app/terms</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://unsourced.app/privacy</li>
</ul>

Unsourced – AI Bot Monitor & AI Search Citation Tracker

See which AI assistants cite your site, who is really crawling it, and whether your fixes work, backed by verified evidence, not vanity scores.

AlmaWeb AI Visitor Analytics vs Unsourced – AI Bot Monitor & AI Search Citation Tracker