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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>
<li>GEO Metrics — visit <a href="https://trygeometrics.com" rel="nofollow ugc">trygeometrics.com</a> for cross-site AI traffic aggregation and visibility scoring across your entire brand.</li>
</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.

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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.

GEO Metrics AI Traffic Monitor vs Unsourced – AI Bot Monitor & AI Search Citation Tracker