AlmaWeb AI Visitor Analytics

Two sides of AI traffic, one powerful plugin.

With the rise of AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, your website faces two new realities:
1. AI bots scraping your content for training and indexing
2. Real human visitors discovering your site through AI tools and clicking through to visit

AlmaWeb AI Visitor Analytics is the only WordPress plugin that tracks BOTH:

AI Bot Detection
Identify bots from major AI companies (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, Amazon), SEO crawlers (Ahrefs, Semrush), aggressive scrapers, and even “stealth” bots hiding behind standard User-Agents. Detect GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Gemini, Bytespider, Perplexity and 200+ more.

AI Referrer Tracking
Track real human visitors coming FROM AI platforms! When someone asks ChatGPT a question and clicks a link to your site, you will see it. Understand which AI tools are sending you traffic, which pages they land on, and how diverse your AI traffic sources are.

Why AlmaWeb AI Visitor Analytics?

In a world where AIs massively consume AND distribute web content, it is crucial to know:

• Who’s scraping your content – Precisely identify each AI bot (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Gemini, etc.)
• Whether ChatGPT is training on your data – Detect OpenAI crawlers in real time and block them if needed
• Which pages are being targeted – Discover what content interests AI bots the most
• Hidden bots – Detect even bots that mask their identity with standard User-Agents (stealth detection)
• Which AI platforms send you traffic – Track human visitors referred by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, etc.

Key Features

🔍 Multi-Level Bot Detection

• Level 1 – User-Agent: Detects 200+ AI bot signatures (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, xAI, Mistral, Cohere, Perplexity, DeepSeek, and more)
• Level 2 – IP Range: Verifies official IP ranges from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to catch masked bots
• Level 3 – Stealth Detection: Detects invisible bots like ChatGPT Atlas that use standard browser User-Agents by cross-referencing IP addresses

📊 Comprehensive Dashboard

• Real-time statistics (human visits vs bots)
• Evolution charts with Chart.js
• Distribution by AI family (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, etc.)
• Top 10 most active bots
• Top 10 most scraped pages
• Comparison with previous period
• Business KPIs: growth rate, peak hours, intent distribution

📋 Detailed Logs

• Advanced filtering by bot type, IP, date
• Real-time search
• Full CSV export
• Complete details: User-Agent, IP, URL, detection method, AI family, bot intent
• Special badge for “invisible” bots

⚙️ Flexible Configuration

• Enable/disable tracking
• Bad bot blocking option (disabled by default)
• Configurable data retention (90 days by default)
• Automatic daily cleanup of old data
• Exclude logged-in users (optional)

🔒 Privacy Respectful

• No data sent to third-party services
• All data stays in your WordPress database
• GDPR compliant
• No cookies or client-side tracking
• Only downloads public data (IP ranges)

Detected Bots

The plugin detects over 200 different bots in the following categories:

AI Bots (AI Training & Inference):
OpenAI (GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, Operator, ChatGPT Agent), Anthropic (ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, Claude-SearchBot), Google AI (Google-Extended, Gemini, NotebookLM, GoogleAgent-Mariner), Meta AI, Amazon (Amazonbot, Bedrock, Nova Act), Apple Intelligence, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI (Grok), Cohere, DeepSeek, Character.AI, Kagi, Exa, Tavily, Apify, and 150+ others.

Search Engines:
Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Baidu, etc.

SEO Crawlers:
Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz, Majestic, etc.

Scrapers & Malicious Bots:
Content scrapers, email collectors, attack bots, etc.

Advanced Stealth Bot Detection

Some AI bots like ChatGPT Atlas use standard browser User-Agents (Chrome, Safari) to go unnoticed. AlmaWeb AI Visitor Analytics detects them by cross-referencing IP addresses against official IP ranges from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google — all stored locally, no external calls required.

Example:
A visitor with User-Agent “Mozilla/5.0 Chrome/…” from an IP in the OpenAI range will be identified as “ChatGPT Atlas” and marked with an “INVISIBLE” badge in the logs.

Firewall — Block Unwanted Bots

Since v1.2.0, the plugin includes a built-in Firewall to block bots before they access your content:

• Block by intention — Stop training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot), scrapers, or inference bots
• Block by family — Block all bots from a specific company (ByteDance, Meta, OpenAI, etc.)
• Blocked bots receive a 403 response and are still logged for analysis

Performance

• Zero external calls: IP ranges for OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are stored locally
• Minimal impact: Optimized to not slow down your site
• Optimized queries: Indexes on all important columns
• Automatic cleanup: Daily deletion of old data

Protect your content and understand your traffic like never before.

Official Plugin Page

Visit the official plugin page for additional resources and support:
https://almaweb.fr/ai-visitor-analytics

Privacy & Data Protection

AlmaWeb AI Visitor Analytics takes your privacy seriously:

Data Storage

• All data is stored locally in your WordPress database
• No external services receive any data from your site
• You have full control over data retention (configurable from 1 to 365 days)
• Automatic daily cleanup removes old data based on your settings

What Data is Collected

The plugin collects the following information for each visit:
* User-Agent string
* IP address
* Requested URL
* HTTP referrer
* Request method (GET, POST, etc.)
* HTTP headers (Accept, Accept-Language, Accept-Encoding)
* Timestamp

This data is used solely for bot detection and traffic analysis on your own site.

GDPR Compliance

• No cookies are set by this plugin
• No client-side tracking or JavaScript-based analytics
• IP addresses are stored for bot identification purposes only
• You can configure data retention to comply with your privacy policy
• Users can request data deletion through standard WordPress data export/erasure tools

What This Plugin Does NOT Do

• Does NOT send your data to external servers
• Does NOT track end-user behavior for advertising
• Does NOT use third-party analytics services
• Does NOT set cookies
• Does NOT require user consent (server-side logging only)

Third-Party Services

This plugin may connect to the following third-party services only to download publicly available bot IP ranges:

OpenAI IP Ranges

• GPTBot: https://openai.com/gptbot.json
• ChatGPT-User: https://openai.com/chatgpt-user.json
• SearchBot: https://openai.com/searchbot.json

Purpose: Verify IP addresses to detect OpenAI bots, including stealth bots like ChatGPT Atlas
Data sent: None – the plugin only downloads public IP range information
Caching: IP ranges are cached for 24 hours to minimize requests
Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/privacy

Important Notes

• No data from your site is ever sent to these services
• The plugin only downloads publicly available IP range lists
• These requests happen server-side (not from visitors’ browsers)
• IP ranges are cached locally for 24 hours
• If the external service is unavailable, the plugin continues to work using User-Agent detection

Bundled Libraries

Chart.js v4.5.1 (bundled locally)
* Used for dashboard visualizations
* No external connections required
* Loaded only on admin pages
* License: MIT

All third-party code is included in the plugin and does not require external CDN connections.

Support & Documentation

Getting Help

If you need help with the plugin, here are your options:

1. Documentation: Check the plugin settings page for inline help and tooltips
2. WordPress Support Forum: Post your questions on the WordPress.org support forum
3. Official Page: Visit https://almaweb.fr/ai-visitor-analytics for contact and support

Reporting Bugs

If you find a bug, please report it on the WordPress.org support forum with:
* WordPress version
* PHP version
* Steps to reproduce the issue
* Any error messages you’re seeing

You can also contact us directly through our official page at https://almaweb.fr/ai-visitor-analytics

Feature Requests

We welcome feature suggestions! Please submit them on the WordPress.org support forum or contact us through https://almaweb.fr/ai-visitor-analytics

Contributing

This plugin is open source and welcomes contributions!

Translation

The plugin is available in French and English. To add a new language:

1. Copy languages/almaweb-ai-visitor-analytics.pot
2. Translate using Poedit or similar tool
3. Save as almaweb-ai-visitor-analytics-{locale}.po and compile to .mo
4. Contact us through https://almaweb.fr/ai-visitor-analytics to submit your translation

Credits

Developed by: Yohan Ziri
Company: AlmaWeb (https://almaweb.fr)
License: GPLv3 or later

Special Thanks:
* Chart.js for beautiful visualizations
* The WordPress community for feedback and support
* All users who help improve the bot detection library