LLM Bot Tracker – AI Crawler Detection & Analytics vs RankReady – AI & LLM SEO for ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI

Is ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Gemini crawling your website? This plugin automatically tracks every AI bot visit to give you the data you need! 🤖 LLM Bot Tracker is the most comprehensive AI crawler analytics plugin for WordPress, providing automatic 24/7 monitoring of artificial intelligence bots, search crawlers, and web scrapers accessing your content. 🎯 How It Works Install → Activate → Done! That’s it. The plugin immediately starts tracking all AI bot activity in the background. No configuration needed. View your data anytime in the admin dashboard at Tools > LLM Crawler Logs. 🚀 Why Track AI Bots & Crawlers? The web is changing. AI-powered search engines like Perplexity, You.com, and SearchGPT are revolutionizing how people find information. Traditional SEO isn’t enough anymore – you need LLMO (Large Language Model Optimization). This plugin automatically captures: * Every AI bot visit – Timestamp, bot name, pages accessed, IP address * AI crawler patterns – Which content AI systems value most * Training data usage – When GPT, Claude, or Gemini scrape your content * Crawl frequency – How often each AI system visits * Geographic origins – Where AI bot traffic originates * Response codes – Success rates and errors for AI crawlers Without this data, you’re flying blind in the AI era of search. ✨ Core Features 🤖 Automatic Detection of 59 AI Bots Including: OpenAI Family: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot (SearchGPT) Anthropic Family: ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, Claude-SearchBot Perplexity: PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User Google AI: Google-Extended, GoogleOther, Google-CloudVertexBot, GoogleAgent-Mariner, Gemini-Deep-Research Amazon AI: Amazonbot, NovaAct (Nova AI Agent) Meta AI: FacebookBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-ExternalFetcher Microsoft: Bingbot (AI-enhanced), MSN Bot AI Assistants: Devin (Software Engineering AI), LinerBot (Academic Research), QualifiedBot Common Crawl: CCBot (feeds multiple AI systems) ByteDance: Bytespider (TikTok AI) AI Search & Research: You.com (YouBot), Timpi (Timpibot), Allen Institute (AI2Bot), Cohere (Cohere-AI) Data Extraction: Diffbot (structured data extraction for ML) Others: MistralAI, Neeva bot, SemrushBot with AI 📊 Powerful Analytics Dashboard (Tools > LLM Crawler Logs) * Complete log of all AI bot activity * Advanced filtering by bot type, date range, URL path, IP address * Configuration Tab – Smart cache detection with setup guides and bot patterns * NEW: CSV export – download your data for offline analysis * 30-day trend analysis – spot patterns and changes * Top bots leaderboard – see your most frequent AI visitors * Path analysis – discover your most AI-visited content * Geographic IP tracking with location data * Bot verification via IP lookup * Response code tracking (200, 404, etc.) * Bulk actions for log management * Export filtered or complete datasets ⚡ Performance & Privacy * Runs silently in background – zero configuration * Lightweight – adds <0.01s to page load * Smart data storage – automatic log rotation * GDPR compliant – no human tracking * No external API calls * 100% local data storage 🎨 Optional Display Shortcodes Want to display AI bot stats on your site? Use these optional shortcodes: * [wpcs_llm_stats] – Statistics table * [wpcs_llm_bar] – Animated bar chart * [wpcs_llm_last100] – Recent activity feed * [wpcs_llm_ip_list] – Compact IP list * [wpcs_crawler_stats] – Combined view 📈 Who Needs This Plugin? Content Creators – Know which AI systems value your content SEO Professionals – Master LLMO and AI SEO with real data News Publishers – Track AI interest in your stories E-commerce Sites – Detect AI shopping assistant crawlers Tech Companies – Monitor competitive AI intelligence gathering Documentation Sites – See which docs AI systems reference Educational Platforms – Understand AI training on your content Any WordPress Site – Future-proof your content strategy 💡 Real User Success Stories “Discovered ChatGPT was hitting our API docs 2,000+ times daily. We optimized those pages and saw a 40% increase in AI-driven traffic!” – Tech Startup “The background tracking revealed Perplexity visits our site every 6 hours. This data completely changed our content strategy.” – Digital Publisher “Found ByteDance scraping our entire product catalog at 3 AM daily. Now we can make informed decisions about blocking.” – E-commerce Owner 🔍 Actionable Insights You’ll Get Automatic tracking reveals: * Which AI companies are most interested in your content * Your most valuable pages according to AI systems * Optimal posting times for AI crawler discovery * Suspicious scraping patterns to investigate * Content gaps AI systems are looking for * Competitive intelligence on AI training data Make informed decisions about: * Which bots to allow or block in robots.txt * Content optimization for AI-powered search * Publishing schedules for maximum AI visibility * Technical SEO for AI crawlers * LLMO strategy development 🛠️ Advanced Administration The plugin works automatically, but power users can: * Filter logs by any parameter * Analyze patterns across time periods * Identify bot behavior anomalies * Track crawler response codes * Monitor crawl budget usage * Set up custom tracking rules * Export data for external analysis 📚 Resources & Documentation What is LLMO? Complete Guide GitHub Repository Support Forum 🏆 Why Choose LLM Bot Tracker? ✅ Automatic & Effortless – Install and forget, it just works ✅ Most Comprehensive – Tracks more AI bots than any other plugin ✅ Lightweight – Won’t slow your site like analytics plugins ✅ Privacy-First – No cookies, no human tracking, GDPR ready ✅ Actively Maintained – New bot detection added monthly ✅ 100% Free Forever – No premium upsells or feature gates ✅ Professional Support – Built by Hueston, trusted WordPress experts since 2019 Join thousands of sites gaining AI visibility insights. Install LLM Bot Tracker today and understand your AI traffic immediately! Additional Information System Requirements WordPress 6.5 or higher PHP 7.4 or higher MySQL 5.6 or higher 10MB free disk space Privacy Policy This plugin only tracks AI bots and crawlers, never human visitors. All data is stored locally in your WordPress database. No external API calls are made. No personal data is collected, transmitted, or sold. Credits Built with ❤️ by the Hueston LLMO Team Special thanks to the WordPress community for feedback and testing. Legal Notice This plugin is not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Google, Meta, or any AI company mentioned. All bot names and trademarks are property of their respective owners. This plugin simply detects and reports on publicly identifiable user agents.

RankReady is a WordPress plugin built for the AI search layer — the answers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews show before anyone reaches a blue link. Drop it in alongside your existing SEO plugin (Rank Math, Yoast, AIOSEO — any of them) and start showing up in AI answers and citations. No conflicts. No replacement. Zero frontend bloat. Visit the official RankReady page → Traditional SEO plugins optimize for Google’s classic results. RankReady adds the layer above them: the AI SEO signals — Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF), llms.txt, FAQ schema, Markdown endpoints, AI crawler controls — that decide whether AI engines read and cite your content. This is generative engine optimization (GEO) and answer engine optimization (AEO) for WordPress, built to work with the SEO plugin you already use. A quick walkthrough of the whole plugin. Built by POSIMYTH Inc. — the team behind The Plus Addons for Elementor, NexterWP, and UiChemy. Coexists with your SEO plugin — zero frontend impact Install RankReady, optionally pick an LLM provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or DeepSeek) for the AI Summary and FAQ generators, and you’re set. It auto-detects your active SEO plugin and never emits duplicate schema — your existing Yoast or Rank Math setup keeps working exactly as before. All AI generation runs in the WordPress admin, so there are no API calls on page load, no third-party scripts, and no extra requests for your visitors. Core Web Vitals are unaffected. llms.txt — the AI-native sitemap RankReady serves the llmstxt.org standard at /llms.txt (a curated index of your best content) and /llms-full.txt (the full content concatenated as Markdown). AI crawlers read these files first to understand your site. Configurable post types, max post count, category and tag exclusions, and a per-domain brand identity (site name, summary, about section) you control from the AI Crawlers tab. Multilingual sites get hreflang Link headers when WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, or GTranslate is detected. AI Summary generator with Speakable schema Generate “Key Takeaways” for any post or page via your chosen LLM (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, or DeepSeek). The summary injects above your content as a styled block with Speakable schema — the JSON-LD that voice assistants read aloud. Use the Regenerate button in the post editor, the Gutenberg block, or the Elementor widget. Unlimited manual generations. FAQ schema generator with DataForSEO A strong signal for AI Overviews. RankReady can query DataForSEO for the real “People Also Ask” questions ranking for your post’s focus keyword, then has your chosen LLM write the answers. Output is FAQPage JSON-LD — the structured data Google AI Overviews and Perplexity frequently cite over plain article text. Don’t use DataForSEO? Type your own questions and let the LLM answer them. Unlimited manual generations. Setup guide in the FAQ section below. Author Box with basic E-E-A-T schema E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) is what AI models use to decide which sources to trust. RankReady ships a basic Author Box — name, job title, employer, bio, headshot, and basic sameAs links — with Article, Speakable, and FAQPage schema. It auto-detects Rank Math, Yoast, and AIOSEO and skips duplicate output. Display it anywhere via the Gutenberg block or the Elementor widget. Markdown endpoints for AI agents Every published post and page is served as clean Markdown at /post-slug.md with YAML frontmatter (title, author, dates). AI agents — Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, custom clients — read Markdown faster than HTML. Content negotiation via Accept: text/markdown lets crawlers fetch the format they prefer with no URL changes. Open Knowledge Format (OKF) — Google’s standard for AI agents Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF v0.1) is a vendor-neutral way to hand your whole site to AI agents as a clean, linked bundle of Markdown — instead of making them scrape your HTML. Turn it on from the AI Crawlers tab and RankReady serves a complete OKF bundle at /okf/: /okf/index.md — a manifest of every page, grouped by type, each linked to its concept file /okf/{slug}.md — one Markdown concept per post, tagged with type, description, canonical URL and tags /okf/log.md — a dated change history One-click .zip export for upload to Google Cloud Knowledge Catalog or a Git repository The bundle is generated entirely on your own server (nothing is sent to Google or anyone else), refreshes automatically whenever you publish or edit, and respects your noindex and per-post exclusion settings — noindexed content never enters the bundle. MCP via the WordPress Abilities API RankReady registers read-only abilities with the Model Context Protocol through the WordPress Abilities API (wp_register_ability()). On WordPress 7.0 these are surfaced by the official MCP Adapter — no bundled MCP server, no extra service to run. Insights — AI referrals, bot activity, freshness The Insights tab gives you real, server-side analytics with no third-party scripts: Training & Citation Bots — Which AI crawlers fetched which pages (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, Google-Extended, and more). Each citation-bot hit is a live AI answer that retrieved your page. Real AI Referrals — Humans clicking through from chatgpt.com, perplexity.ai, claude.ai, gemini.google.com, and copilot.microsoft.com, tracked via the HTTP Referer header. Content Freshness scanner — Buckets posts into Stale, Going stale, and Fresh, with one-click dateModified refresh to signal recency to AI crawlers. All counts are stored locally in your own tables — never sent to POSIMYTH. 31 AI crawler controls + auto robots.txt Granular allow/block toggles for 31 AI bots: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, FacebookBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Applebot-Extended, DuckAssistBot, YouBot, AI2Bot, Diffbot, Cohere-ai, Kagibot, and more. Auto-syncs your choices to robots.txt — both the WordPress virtual robots.txt and a physical ABSPATH/robots.txt if another plugin intercepts the URL. Plus Content Signals (ai-train, search, ai-input directives per contentsignals.org). Cache compatibility + Diagnostics RankReady persists cache-bypass entries to each cache plugin’s stored configuration so server-level caches honour the bypass before PHP runs — tested with WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, WP Fastest Cache, Breeze, SG Optimizer, Hummingbird, Cache Enabler, Comet Cache, Swift Performance, NitroPack, Perfmatters, Cloudflare APO, Pantheon, Kinsta, and WP Engine. The Diagnostics card runs live endpoint probes, detects active SEO plugins, checks rewrite rules and REST routes, scans for cache conflicts, and gives you a one-click plain-text report for support — every failure ships with a one-line fix. Coming soon A companion add-on (in development) will layer advanced AI SEO automation on top of the free build: Auto-generate AI Summaries and FAQs on publish Bulk-generate summaries and FAQs across your whole library HowTo and ItemList JSON-LD Advanced Person / E-E-A-T schema (credentials, education, certifications, memberships, awards, Wikidata / ORCID / Scholar / LinkedIn, editorial & fact-check policies, Author Trust Panel) Custom post type support beyond posts and pages Headless / WPGraphQL API for decoupled front ends These appear as “Coming soon” placeholders in the plugin and ship no code in the free build. Everything listed above the “Coming soon” heading is fully free, with no caps on manual generation. More Plugins from POSIMYTH RankReady is part of the POSIMYTH Innovations product family. If you build WordPress sites, you’ll probably want these too: The Plus Addons for Elementor — 120+ premium Elementor widgets with Smart Animations, Carousels, and advanced filters. Powers 500,000+ sites. Nexter Blocks – Theme & Extension — The fast, AI-ready Gutenberg block library and theme framework. Built for Core Web Vitals. UiChemy – Figma to WordPress — Convert any Figma design into responsive Elementor or Gutenberg layouts in one click. No code. WDesignKit — A growing library of pre-built websites, pages, blocks, and templates for Elementor and Gutenberg. SproutOS — The AI-native content operating system. Plan, draft, brief, and publish at scale. Privacy & Third-Party Services RankReady is privacy-respecting by default. POSIMYTH does not collect, store, or transmit any data from your site. No telemetry. No analytics. No “phone home”. Your API keys are stored only in your own wp_options table. The plugin contacts third-party services only when you explicitly enter API credentials AND trigger a generation action. Each service is opt-in and uses your own API key: OpenAI (Terms of Use · Privacy Policy) — When you generate an AI Summary or FAQ with OpenAI as your provider, the post’s title and body text are sent to https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions using your own API key. The generated response is stored as post meta on your site. Nothing is sent without an explicit click from you. Anthropic Claude (Terms of Use · Privacy Policy) — When Anthropic is your provider, the same post text is sent to https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages using your own API key. Same opt-in trigger; same one-shot use. Google Gemini (API Terms · Privacy Policy) — When Gemini is your provider, the same post text is sent to https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/ :generateContent using your own API key. DeepSeek (Terms of Use · Privacy Policy) — When DeepSeek is your provider, the same post text is sent to https://api.deepseek.com/chat/completions using your own API key. DataForSEO (Terms of Service · Privacy Policy) — When you trigger the FAQ Generator, the post’s focus keyword is sent to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/organic/live/advanced using your own DataForSEO Login plus Password. Only the keyword string is sent, not the article text. Discovered questions are stored as post meta on your site. No other endpoints are contacted. The plugin never sends any data on its own initiative — every outbound request is the direct result of an administrator action.