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<p>Lightweight, easy-to-use plugin that allows your site to be visible only to logged-in users.<br />
Great for when your site is still under construction.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Lightweight and easy-to-use with a single settings page.</li>
<li>Fully-functional, no upsell for additional features.</li>
<li>Themeable landing page or redirect to the login page.</li>
<li>Use a custom X-Secret HTTP header to access your site contents programmatically.</li>
<li>Professionally supported by <a href="https://www.mindspun.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Mindspun</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Getting Started</h3>
<p>All settings are on a single page named ‘Wall’ under the Settings menu of the WordPress dashboard.<br />
Select the <strong>Enabled</strong> checkbox and click the ‘Save Changes’ button then a default landing page will be shown to<br />
your users on any non-login page.</p>
<h3>Theming your landing page</h3>
<p>The landing page will use your theme styles by default, but you can easily customize the page to anything you wish.</p>
<p>In your theme:<br />
* Create a directory in your theme named <strong>spn_templates</strong>.<br />
* Copy <strong>wall-landing-page.php</strong> from the ‘templates’ directory of this plugin (or create your own) into the ‘spn_templates’ directory of you theme.</p>
<p>The template gives you full control over all the contents of that page.</p>


Wall

Known Agents

<p>Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors.</p>
<h3>Track, control, and optimize your website for AI agents and bots</h3>
<p>You have <a href="https://knownagents.com/insights" rel="nofollow ugc">40% more visitors than you think</a>. Protect your content from unwanted AI scraping, and turn the rising wave of AI agents, LLM assistants, and other bots visiting your website into a new growth channel for your business. For full details, visit the <a href="https://knownagents.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Known Agents</a> website.</p>
<h3>1. AI Agent & Bot Analytics</h3>
<p>Get realtime visibility into the hidden ecosystem of crawlers, scrapers, and AI agents browsing your website</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Watch traffic from crawlers and scrapers as it happens</strong>: Track the hidden activity of <a href="https://knownagents.com/agents" rel="nofollow ugc">all known artificial agents</a> visiting your website in real time.</li>
<li><strong>Replay AI agent navigation patterns</strong>: Follow a single agent’s session as it navigates your website. Find where agents get stuck, identify dead ends, and help them complete their tasks.</li>
<li><strong>Catch bots spoofing legitimate agents</strong>: Identify bad actors and unauthorized scrapers pretending to be legitimate agents like Googlebot or Bingbot.</li>
<li><strong>Never miss a bot traffic spike</strong>: Stay informed when an agent’s traffic starts surging or overloading your server.</li>
<li><strong>Reveal which agents visit most, and which pages they target</strong>: Break down bot traffic by page to understand what they’re interested in.</li>
<li><strong>Export reports to CSV</strong>: Download agent activity reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. LLM Citation & Referral Tracking (GEO, AEO)</h3>
<p>Measure citations and human click-throughs from AI chat platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Increase citations in AI chat responses</strong>: See which pages LLMs recommend most often. Double down on content that’s working.</li>
<li><strong>Find out which AI platforms are sending you traffic</strong>: Measure how many humans are clicking through to your website from a citation.</li>
<li><strong>Export reports to CSV</strong>: Download LLM referral reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Automatic Robots.txt & Bad Bot Detection</h3>
<p>Protect your content and reduce server cost by serving a robots.txt that updates continuously</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Set robots.txt rules for entire categories of bots</strong>: Control access for entire agent categories including AI crawlers, scrapers, SEO bots, and more. One selection covers every current and future agent in that group.</li>
<li><strong>We track new bots, you don’t have to</strong>: Your robots.txt is updated as new agents emerge, so you never have to manage them yourself or make manual edits.</li>
<li><strong>Block misbehaving crawlers and scrapers</strong>: Detect and block bots that ignore your robots.txt rules using the WordPress plugin, or our automation detectors.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Demos</h3>
<p>Demos can be found on the <a href="https://knownagents.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">home page</a>.</p>
<h3>Further Details</h3>
<p>This plugin connects your website to <a href="https://knownagents.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Known Agents</a>. It uses the Known Agents API to connect to your account and provide functionality.</p>
<p>By signing up, you agree to the <a href="https://knownagents.com/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> and <a href="https://knownagents.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>.</p>
<p>Are you finding this plugin useful? Please <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">leave us a ★★★★★ review</a>! Questions or issues? <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dark-visitors/" rel="ugc">Ask us for help</a>.</p>


Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic


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

Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors.

Wall vs Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic