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GEO Metrics AI Traffic Monitor turns your raw server and WordPress logs into actionable intelligence about AI bot traffic. In a world where ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity crawl billions of pages to power their answers, knowing whether those bots visit your site — and what they read — is a new SEO frontier.
The plugin works out of the box with zero configuration. It reads your existing <code>debug.log</code>, access logs, and PHP error logs, identifies AI crawlers by their User-Agent string, and displays a clean analytics dashboard inside your WordPress admin.
<h4>What you get</h4>
<ul>
<li>AI Bot Dashboard — KPI cards for total requests, AI bot visits, distinct bots detected, and the active date range. Visual trend chart broken down per bot per day. Donut chart of bot share.</li>
<li>Bot Details tab — per-bot breakdown with company grouping (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta…), bot type (crawler / agent / search / researcher), top pages visited, and HTTP status distribution.</li>
<li>Log Viewer tab — raw log lines with syntax highlighting, live refresh via AJAX, and per-event type/severity filtering.</li>
<li>Live Traffic capture — the plugin writes its own <code>live.log</code> (no server log access needed), capturing every frontend, REST API, and AJAX request in Combined Log Format, with automatic 5 MB rotation.</li>
<li>Date range filter — filter all dashboard data by custom date range or quick presets (Last 7 days, Last 30 days, etc.).</li>
<li>WP-Cron sync — automatic parsing on a configurable schedule (Hourly / Every 6 hours / Twice daily / Daily).</li>
<li>Data retention — configurable retention period (default 30 days) with automatic purge.</li>
<li>Proxy-aware IP detection — optional trust of <code>X-Forwarded-For</code> / <code>CF-Connecting-IP</code> headers for sites behind Cloudflare or a reverse proxy.</li>
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</ul>
<h4>Detected bots (40+)</h4>
Organized by company:
<ul>
<li>OpenAI — GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, OAI-AdsBot</li>
<li>Anthropic — ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, anthropic-ai</li>
<li>Google — Googlebot, Google-Extended, Gemini, Google-Agent, Google-CloudVertexBot, GoogleOther, Google-NotebookLM</li>
<li>Microsoft — bingbot</li>
<li>Perplexity — PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, DuckAssistBot</li>
<li>Meta — Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-ExternalFetcher, Meta-WebIndexer</li>
<li>xAI — GrokBot</li>
<li>Mistral AI — MistralAI-User</li>
<li>ByteDance — Bytespider, TikTokSpider</li>
<li>Apple — Applebot</li>
<li>Amazon — Amazonbot</li>
<li>Cohere — cohere-ai</li>
<li>You.com — YouBot</li>
<li>DuckDuckGo — DuckDuckBot</li>
<li>Common Crawl / Research — CCBot, AI2Bot</li>
<li>SEO tools — AhrefsBot, AhrefsSiteAudit, SemrushBot, DotBot, Barkrowler, DataForSeoBot, ScreamingFrog</li>
<li>Other search engines — BaiduSpider, Yandexbot, Naverbot, ShapBot</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
The plugin reads log files already stored on your server. It does not set cookies, collect personal data from visitors, or make any external HTTP requests. Raw log lines are never stored in the WordPress database — only aggregated counts and parsed metadata are persisted.
<h4>Source log support</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress <code>debug.log</code> (WP_DEBUG_LOG)</li>
<li>PHP <code>error_log</code> (auto-detected from <code>php.ini</code>)</li>
<li>Plugin-owned live traffic log (zero-config, works on any host)</li>
<li>Web server access log (optional path in Settings)</li>
<li>Up to 3 custom log paths</li>
</ul>

GEO Metrics AI Traffic Monitor

Know which AI crawlers visit your site, how often, and what they read. Zero-config bot detection from your existing WordPress logs.

ShieldSquare

On integrating the plugin, the CMS Plugin will start making API calls to ShieldSquare solution and the response received is in the form of a response code. The response code directly indicates the action to be taken based on the incoming request. All API calls made to ShieldSquare, (in monitor mode) by default would be asynchronous in nature, based on the compatibility of the website platform.
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ol>
<li>WordPress version >= 4.0.0</li>
<li>PHP version >= 5.2.4 with “curl” extension.</li>
<li>cURL extension: http://php.net/manual/en/curl.installation.php</li>
</ol>
<h3>Online Integration Guide</h3>
The online integration guide can be found at http://integration.shieldsquare.com. 
For further assistance, please reach us at support@shieldsquare.com
<h3>Additional Details</h3>
<ol>
<li>If log is enabled then log file gets generated in ‘/tmp/shieldsquare.log’.</li>
<li>Response Codes: 
 0 -> Valid request 
 2 -> Display captcha code 
 3 -> Blocked 
 4 -> Feed Fake data 
 -1 -> Error page</li>
</ol>

ShieldSquare – Real-time Bot Management Solution for Web Apps, Mobile & APIs

ShieldSquare plugin provides users access to Dashboards to follow up on traffic and understand bot activity on their websites.

GEO Metrics AI Traffic Monitor vs ShieldSquare – Real-time Bot Management Solution for Web Apps, Mobile & APIs