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LLM Bot Monitor

WordPress plugin that tracks AI/LLM bot crawlers — four-tab dashboard with bot categorization, AI visibility scoring, and cache configuration

by Eric Hinzpeter · github.com/erichinzpeter/llm-bot-monitor · website

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/erichinzpeter/llm-bot-monitor/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
Readme github.com/erichinzpeter/llm-bot-monitor ↗

WordPress plugin that tracks AI/LLM bot crawlers visiting your site. Install, activate, done — no configuration needed.

Features

  • Automatic detection of 19 AI bots categorized as Grounding (real-time search) or Training (data collection)
  • Four-tab admin dashboard at Tools > LLM Bot Monitor:
    • Crawler Logs — stats cards, 30-day bar chart, top bots leaderboard, filterable paginated log table, bulk delete
    • Bot-Übersicht — all tracked bots grouped by provider with Grounding/Training badges and hit stats
    • AI-Sichtbarkeit — all published pages scored by AI coverage (% of active bots that visited)
    • Konfiguration — cache exclusion instructions for 5 caching plugins, copyable bot patterns
  • Lightweight — adds <0.01s overhead per request
  • 90-day automatic log rotation via WP-Cron
  • Zero dependencies — no external libraries, no build step

Requirements

  • WordPress 6.5+
  • PHP 8.0+
  • MySQL 5.6+

Installation

From GitHub

  1. Download the latest release
  2. Upload the llm-bot-monitor folder to wp-content/plugins/
  3. Activate in WordPress admin under Plugins

For development

git clone https://github.com/erichinzpeter/llm-bot-monitor.git ~/Projects/llm-bot-monitor
ln -s ~/Projects/llm-bot-monitor /path/to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/llm-bot-monitor

Activate the plugin in WordPress admin.

Usage

After activation, the plugin immediately starts tracking AI bot visits in the background. View your data at Tools > LLM Bot Monitor.

Tracked Bots

19 bots across two categories:

Grounding (real-time search/retrieval): ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Gemini-Deep-Research, Google-Agent, Meta-ExternalFetcher, Applebot, Bingbot

Training (data collection for future models): GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Meta-ExternalAgent, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, MistralBot

Providers: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, ByteDance, Mistral, Common Crawl.

Privacy & GDPR

This plugin is GDPR-compliant by design:

  • Only bot traffic is logged — human visitors are never tracked
  • No cookies set or read
  • No external API calls — all data stays in your WordPress database
  • No fingerprinting of any kind
  • IP anonymization — bot IPs are truncated before storage (last 2 octets zeroed for IPv4, last 80 bits for IPv6), making individual server identification impossible
  • IP addresses stored are bot IPs only — datacenter IPs belonging to AI companies, not personal data
  • Automatic data minimization — logs older than 90 days are automatically deleted
  • No consent mechanism needed — no personal data of human users is collected

License

GPL-2.0-or-later — see LICENSE for details.

Author

Eric Hinzpeter

Credits

Inspired by LLM Bot Tracker by Hueston