Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic
by Known Agents
Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors.
Track, control, and optimize your website for AI agents and bots
You have 40% more visitors than you think. 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 Known Agents website.
1. AI Agent & Bot Analytics
Get realtime visibility into the hidden ecosystem of crawlers, scrapers, and AI agents browsing your website
- Watch traffic from crawlers and scrapers as it happens: Track the hidden activity of all known artificial agents visiting your website in real time.
- Replay AI agent navigation patterns: 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.
- Catch bots spoofing legitimate agents: Identify bad actors and unauthorized scrapers pretending to be legitimate agents like Googlebot or Bingbot.
- Never miss a bot traffic spike: Stay informed when an agent’s traffic starts surging or overloading your server.
- Reveal which agents visit most, and which pages they target: Break down bot traffic by page to understand what they’re interested in.
- Export reports to CSV: Download agent activity reports for custom analysis.
2. LLM Citation & Referral Tracking (GEO, AEO)
Measure citations and human click-throughs from AI chat platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini
- Increase citations in AI chat responses: See which pages LLMs recommend most often. Double down on content that’s working.
- Find out which AI platforms are sending you traffic: Measure how many humans are clicking through to your website from a citation.
- Export reports to CSV: Download LLM referral reports for custom analysis.
3. Automatic Robots.txt & Bad Bot Detection
Protect your content and reduce server cost by serving a robots.txt that updates continuously
- Set robots.txt rules for entire categories of bots: 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.
- We track new bots, you don’t have to: Your robots.txt is updated as new agents emerge, so you never have to manage them yourself or make manual edits.
- Block misbehaving crawlers and scrapers: Detect and block bots that ignore your robots.txt rules using the WordPress plugin, or our automation detectors.
Demos
Demos can be found on the home page.
Further Details
This plugin connects your website to Known Agents. It uses the Known Agents API to connect to your account and provide functionality.
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See your hidden bot and AI agent traffic - Half your website's traffic isn't human anymore. Get the "Google Analytics for bots" and use it to grow
Track the activity of individual bots - Discover the pages each agent is most interested in, and how often it visits
Measure human referrals from LLMs - Analyze clicks from AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini
Increase citations in LLM responses - Double down on content that AI platforms are recommending
Find out where AI agents get stuck - Review common entry points, exit pages, and dead ends
Replay AI agent navigation patterns - Follow a single agent’s session as it performs a task on your website
Detect bad bots scraping your content - Catch unidentified, spoofed, and disallowed visits, set robots.txt rules by category
Reveal which pages are visited the most - Sort your pages by agent visits or human LLM referrals
Inspect and optimize any page on your website - Understand exactly how AI is engaging with your content, page by page
Watch everything happen in real time - Monitor every agent visit and human LLM referral in a live feed