PufferSights – AI Crawler Insights vs SMTP2GO for WordPress –

PufferSights monitors 100+ known AI crawler and AI agent user agents, hashes IP addresses, groups traffic by bot, provider, crawl purpose, content type, and response status, tracks human referrals from AI surfaces, and can publish a dynamic llms.txt content map for public site content. The dashboard summarizes: HTTP traffic by bot. Crawl purpose. Content type. Response status. AI referrals and crawl-to-refer ratio. Top crawled content. Tracked agent count. Dynamic llms.txt content map. robots.txt audit and policy snippets. The crawler registry is based on current public operator documentation and industry references for OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Google, Apple, Common Crawl, Meta, ByteDance, Microsoft, Amazon, and related AI crawler operators. The plugin does not contact any external service. All analytics data is stored in your own WordPress database. robots.txt publishing is off by default. The plugin can generate and optionally publish policies for: Monitor only. Block training crawlers. Allow AI search/user-action bots while blocking training crawlers. Block all known AI bots. llms.txt publishing is on by default and can be disabled in the PufferSights settings. The generated /llms.txt file lists selected published public pages and posts in Markdown so AI assistants can find the site’s main public content more easily. Important Notes User-agent detection is not bot verification. User agents can be spoofed. Raw IP addresses are not stored; the plugin stores a salted hash for rough uniqueness. robots.txt is voluntary. Use a WAF, CDN, or server-level controls when technical enforcement is required. Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended are robots.txt control tokens rather than normal request user agents, so they appear in robots.txt audits and policy snippets but usually do not appear in request logs. llms.txt is a content map, not an access-control policy. It does not replace robots.txt and does not force AI systems to use or cite your content. Privacy PufferSights stores local analytics for public, logged-out requests only. It does not track wp-admin pages, logged-in users, AJAX requests, or WP-Cron requests. The plugin stores: Request time and date. Event type, such as AI crawler request or AI referral. HTTP method. Request path without query string. HTTP response status. MIME/content group. Matched crawler or AI referral provider. User-agent string and user-agent hash. Salted one-way hash of the request IP address. Referrer origin only, such as https://chatgpt.com, without referrer path or query string. The plugin does not store raw IP addresses, cookies, browser local storage, or complete referrer URLs. It does not send analytics, telemetry, crawler records, or site data to third-party services. If llms.txt publishing is enabled, the plugin serves a Markdown overview of selected published public posts and pages at /llms.txt. Drafts, private posts, and password-protected posts are not included. Administrators can disable tracking, clear captured events, and configure retention from the PufferSights admin page. The default retention period is 90 days. On uninstall, the plugin removes its custom analytics table, saved options, and scheduled cleanup hook. The plugin also adds suggested disclosure text to WordPress’ Privacy Policy Guide.

SMTP2GO’s WordPress plugin replaces the default built in wp_mail() functionality (phpmailer) and sends your email via SMTP2GO’s API and industry leading email delivery platform. SMTP2GO provides valuable insights into every aspect of your email’s life cycle, enabling you to track delivery rates, opens, clicks, and bounce rates. Whether your email is transactional, marketing, newsletter, contact form, or notification – we have got you covered. The main benefits of using the official SMTP2GO plugin: We have made our plugin as easy and low maintenance as possible – you can set it up in under ten minutes. Take over from the default WordPress email system for more reliable delivery – you can be confident your emails have arrived at their destination inbox successfully. Get access to our intuitive real-time reporting tools. You can uncover what is going on behind the scenes with delivery, open rates, click rates, bounce, and unsubscription reports. We offer secure worldwide servers with intelligent routing for network redundancy and speedy delivery. We handle SPF and DKIM on your behalf. SMTP2GO can even turn your “http” links into “https”. Diagnose and resolve delivery issues with our insightful reporting page, or reach out to our award-winning support team who are available almost 24/7 to help address problems in a timely, friendly fashion. We have a dedicated Review team who constantly monitor the reputations of our IP’s and we proactively alert members to any suspicious changes in their email regimen. Avoid poor reputation and throttling or limitations from over-used shared web hosts and other providers. Sign up here. Support If you have questions or need assistance then feel free to contact the support team by logging into your SMTP2GO dashboard and clicking the support icon on the top right navigation bar. More information on this plugin is available in our knowledgebase. About SMTP2GO Founded in 2006, SMTP2GO is a fast and scalable world class email service provider for sending transactional and marketing emails. It is developed and supported by a team of delivery experts at the forefront of the email industry, providing a reliable SMTP solution for over 35,000 businesses. Complexities such as reputation monitoring, SPF and DKIM are professionally managed for each customer. Native-English speaking support is available worldwide (agents in the USA, EU, UK, Australia, and New Zealand). Our data centers are located around the world, meaning lightning-fast connection speeds, network redundancy, and GDPR compliance.