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LLMS Central Bot Tracker helps you understand which AI systems are visiting your website and gives you control over how AI companies use your content.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Track 16+ AI Bots – Monitor visits from GPTBot, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and more</li>
<li>Real-time Analytics – See which AI bots are crawling your site and when</li>
<li>llms.txt Management – Create and manage your llms.txt file (the “robots.txt for AI”)</li>
<li>Privacy-Focused – Only tracks bot user-agents, no personal data collected</li>
<li>Dashboard Widget – View AI bot activity right in your WordPress dashboard</li>
<li>Easy Setup – One-click installation, no coding required</li>
</ul>
<h4>What is llms.txt?</h4>
llms.txt is like robots.txt, but for AI systems. It tells AI companies how they can use your content for training their models. With this plugin, you can:
<ul>
<li>Allow or restrict AI training on your content</li>
<li>Require attribution when AI uses your content</li>
<li>Set commercial use policies</li>
<li>Provide contact information for AI companies</li>
</ul>
<h4>Tracked AI Bots</h4>
<ul>
<li>GPTBot (OpenAI)</li>
<li>ChatGPT-User (OpenAI)</li>
<li>Claude-Web (Anthropic)</li>
<li>Google-Extended (Google)</li>
<li>Perplexity Bot</li>
<li>Bytespider (ByteDance)</li>
<li>Cohere AI</li>
<li>FacebookBot (Meta)</li>
<li>Amazonbot</li>
<li>And 8+ more AI crawlers</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy & Data Collection</h4>
This plugin is designed with privacy in mind:
Data Collection is OPT-IN ONLY: 
No data is sent to external servers unless you explicitly enable tracking and provide consent in the plugin settings.
When Tracking is Enabled (with your consent): 
* Bot user-agent strings 
* Page URLs visited by bots 
* Timestamp of visits 
* Your domain name
Data NOT Collected: 
* Visitor IP addresses 
* Personal information 
* Cookies or tracking identifiers 
* Form submissions 
* Human visitor data
You can disable tracking at any time, and no data will be transmitted without your explicit permission.
<h4>Use Cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Content Creators – Know which AI systems are using your content</li>
<li>Publishers – Monitor AI bot traffic and set training policies</li>
<li>Developers – Track AI crawler behavior on your site</li>
<li>SEO Professionals – Understand AI bot impact on your site</li>
<li>Business Owners – Control how AI companies use your content</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
This plugin sends data to LLMS Central servers (https://llmscentral.com) for analytics purposes.
Data Sent: 
* Bot user-agent strings 
* Page URLs visited by bots 
* Timestamp of visits 
* Your domain name
Data NOT Sent: 
* Visitor IP addresses 
* Personal information 
* Cookies or tracking identifiers 
* Form submissions 
* Human visitor data
You must explicitly consent to this data collection by checking the consent box in the plugin settings. You can revoke consent at any time by disabling the plugin.
For full details, see our <a href="https://llmscentral.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://llmscentral.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to the following external service:
LLMS Central API (https://llmscentral.com) 
* Purpose: Send AI bot tracking data and retrieve analytics (OPT-IN ONLY) 
* Privacy Policy: https://llmscentral.com/privacy 
* Terms of Service: https://llmscentral.com/terms 
* Data Transmission: Only when tracking is explicitly enabled by the user
This plugin does NOT send any data to external servers by default. Connection to LLMS Central servers only occurs when you: 
1. Enable the “Bot Tracking” feature in settings 
2. Accept the privacy policy and provide explicit consent 
3. Check the consent checkbox
Without your explicit consent, the plugin operates entirely locally on your WordPress site.
<h3>Support</h3>
For support, please visit:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://llmscentral.com/wordpress-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/llms-central-ai-bot-tracker/" rel="ugc">Support Forum</a></li>
<li><a href="https://llmscentral.com/dashboard" rel="nofollow ugc">LLMS Central Dashboard</a> (requires free account)</li>
<li><a href="https://llmscentral.com/getting-started" rel="nofollow ugc">Getting Started Guide</a></li>
</ul>
Before requesting support, please: 
1. Check the FAQ section above in this readme 
2. Ensure you’re using the latest version 
3. Review the plugin settings in WordPress admin 
4. Check the WordPress debug log for errors 
5. Visit the WordPress.org support forum for community help
<h3>Credits</h3>
Developed by the LLMS Central team. Visit <a href="https://llmscentral.com" rel="nofollow ugc">llmscentral.com</a> to learn more about AI training policies and llms.txt files.

LLMS Central – AI Bot Tracker

Track AI bots (GPT, Claude, Gemini) visiting your site and manage your llms.txt file. See which AI systems are crawling your content.

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Get realtime visibility into crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents browsing your website. Generate a robots.txt to opt out of AI training.
<h3>Track AI agents, bot traffic, and LLM referrals</h3>
Bots now make up <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/insights" rel="nofollow ugc">half of your website’s traffic</a>. Harness the activity of AI agents, crawlers, scrapers, and LLM assistants to grow your business and protect your content from unwanted bot access. For full details, visit the <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dark Visitors</a> website.
<h3>1. Agent Analytics</h3>
Get realtime visibility into the hidden ecosystem of crawlers, scrapers, AI agents, and other bots browsing your website.
<ul>
<li>Monitor traffic from crawlers and scrapers: Track the hidden activity of <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/agents" rel="nofollow ugc">all known artificial agents</a> visiting your website in real time.</li>
<li>Watch AI agents browse your website: Analyze sessions from AI models autonomously navigating and interacting with your website. Optimize their experience to increase conversions and human referrals.</li>
<li>Spot spoofed visits with agent authentication: Detect bad actors pretending to be legitimate agents.</li>
<li>Get spike alert notifications: Get notified when an agent’s traffic starts surging or overloading your server.</li>
<li>Identify the most active agents and which pages they’re accessing: Understand which agents visit your website the most, and which pages they’re most interested in.</li>
<li>Export reports to CSV: Download agent activity reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. LLM Referral Tracking</h3>
Measure human traffic coming from AI chat and search platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot.
<ul>
<li>Find out which AI platforms are mentioning you: See which LLMs are including or recommending your website in their responses.</li>
<li>Export reports to CSV: Download LLM referral reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Automatic Robots.txt</h3>
Protect sensitive content from unwanted scraping with a continuously updating robots.txt.
<ul>
<li>Generate your robots.txt automatically: Opt out of LLM training by generating a robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically. No need to make manual updates.</li>
<li>Block agents who try to break your rules: block bad bots from accessing your website.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Demos</h3>
Demos can be found on the <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">home page</a>.
<h3>Further Details</h3>
This plugin connects your website to <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dark Visitors</a>. It uses the Dark Visitors API to connect to your account and provide functionality.
By signing up, you agree to the <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> and <a href="https://darkvisitors.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>.
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Please remind me in a month to provide an update on the performance of this plugin on a heavily visited website.


Begun my review...


An easy improvement would be to link to the settings page from the plugin entry like other plugins, other than that, in general this plugin and its online dashboard is generally well thought out and useful. My website is small and has limited resources that get overrun by crawlers making it unavailable. This plugin helps identify the culprits and decide if I should block them or not. For free you can block them in robots.txt, as I have a physical file, the plugin won't touch that but its easy to add manually. It will report those crawlers that ignore the robots file and the paid version will enforce those rules, but I just update ".htaccess" myself.



I'm reducing my rating by a star since you won't get much "Agent Analytics" (per month) and for my tiny site it quickly ran out, we are a NFP so don't have money to burn on subscriptions.  The the description for the plan incorrectly states "Unlimited Agent Analytics" when the plan only includes 100,000 events.


Very Useful Plugin


Very good: shows all bot-crawlers.Our website was sometimes down due to bot-crawlers, with this tool it is easy to solve. Very good logging of bots.This was the only good plugin I could find for this purpose.Some bots ignore robots.txt. So I manually changed htaccess, that worked very good.


Very very helpful

Get realtime visibility into crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents browsing your website. Generate a robots.txt to opt out of AI training.

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