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

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. By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Are you finding this plugin useful? Please leave us a ★★★★★ review! Questions or issues? Ask us for help.

Gregius Optimizer gives content editors and site administrators a unified control panel for search, social, and AI metadata — without leaving the block editor. Panels Sitemap — Toggle post types, taxonomies, and authors in your XML sitemap. Exclude individual posts from search engines with a single click. Robots.txt — Edit your robots.txt file from a modal textarea with dynamic row sizing. Reset to WordPress defaults at any time. Schema — Full schema.org type map with 174 subtypes across 9 categories (Article, WebPage, CreativeWork, Event, Organization, Person, Place, Product, Review). Assign global defaults per post type, override per post, and preview JSON-LD with clipboard copy. Organization JSON-LD includes sameAs and logo. Social Cards — Per-platform title, description, and image overrides for Google Search Snippets, Open Graph (Facebook, LinkedIn), and Twitter/X Cards. Inline live previews with character counters (Google 60/160, OG 55/65, Twitter 70/200). Global fallback image with kebab menu. LLMs — Auto-generate /llms.txt from site content for AI agent discoverability. Custom context editing with live preview. Per-post include toggle with custom descriptions. All panels are accessible from PluginDocumentSettingPanel in the Gutenberg sidebar, listed in order: Sitemap → Robots → Schema → Social Cards → LLMs. Key Features Meta description and canonical URL output via wp_head pre_get_document_title filter for Google-specific title override Open Graph (og:*) and Twitter Card meta tags with per-platform fallback chains gg_optimizer_og image size (1200×630, cropped) registered on after_setup_theme JSON-LD structured data: Organization (configurable subtype), WebSite, BreadcrumbList, article/page (174 subtypes) @graph wrapper for multiple JSON-LD nodes Custom DB table (gg_optimizer_settings) shared across all features REST endpoints for all settings: sitemap, robots, schema, social cards preview, llms override and preview Filter-based architecture — every output group can be disabled via filters All meta fields support revisions Contributors & Developers Gregius Optimizer is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Hector Jarquin — Lead developer and maintainer Gregius — Product owner and sponsor Visit the contributor profiles on WordPress.org: * https://profiles.wordpress.org/hectorjarquin/ * https://profiles.wordpress.org/gregiusteam/ Repository Source code and build instructions: https://github.com/gregius/gregius-optimizer This plugin uses npm and @wordpress/scripts for asset compilation. Source JavaScript lives in assets/src/ and compiles to assets/build/. All PHP source is human-readable. External Services Gregius Optimizer does not send data to any external service. The following URLs are referenced as documentation or standards only: Google Robots — https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro — robots.txt and meta robots documentation Schema.org — https://schema.org/ — structured data vocabulary reference Google Structured Data Gallery — https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/search-gallery — structured data feature reference Open Graph Protocol — https://ogp.me/ — Open Graph meta tag specification Twitter/X Cards — https://docs.x.com/overview — Twitter Card meta tag documentation llms.txt — https://llmstxt.org/ — llms.txt proposal specification