Referenced – AI Crawler Tracking counts visits from known AI crawlers, such as GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Googlebot, and posts hourly day totals to your Referenced AI account. You can then see which AI engines are reading which pages of your site.
The plugin is a reporter only. It writes nothing to your pages or content, and it records no visitor data: no IP addresses, cookies or user accounts. For each known crawler it keeps a count per bot, path and day in one small table of its own.
You need a Referenced AI account and a connection token. Until you save a token, nothing is sent anywhere.
External Services
This plugin sends crawler visit totals to Referenced AI, the service whose account you connect it to.
- Service: Referenced AI
- Endpoint: https://getreferenced.ai/api/ingest/bot-hits
- What is sent: the bot name, the page path, the date, the visit count, the plugin version, the WordPress version and your site’s home URL.
- When: once an hour, and when you press “Send now” on Settings Referenced. Nothing is sent until a connection token has been saved.
Privacy policy: getreferenced.ai/privacy
Terms of service: getreferenced.ai/terms
Credits
- Geist and Geist Mono fonts, SIL Open Font License 1.1 (see assets/fonts/OFL.txt).
- Interface icons from Heroicons, MIT licence, copyright Tailwind Labs, Inc.
- AI company logos from Lobe Icons, MIT licence, copyright 2023 LobeHub; the Amazon mark is from Simple Icons, CC0.
- Full notices are in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt. The logos belong to their respective owners and are used only to identify those crawlers.
Screenshots
Settings → Referenced: what the plugin sends, your connection status, and the AI crawlers that visited in the last 7 days.
Every AI crawler that visited in the last 7 days, with its visits and how many pages it read.
The dashboard widget: AI crawler visits this week at a glance.