RealTrace AI provides real-time, privacy-first analytics for WordPress. It tracks incoming visitors through a dual-layer approach (server-side capture and client-side non-blocking REST beacons) to distinguish real humans from AI crawlers, search engine indexers, and automated scraping tools.

Unlike standard visitor counters that treat every automated HTTP hit as a genuine person, RealTrace AI filters and segments incoming traffic into three distinct tiers: Humans, AI & LLM Crawlers, and Search Engine Bots.

Bots & Crawlers Detected Out-of-the-Box

RealTrace AI evaluates request patterns, URI endpoints, and User-Agent headers against extensive internal signatures:

1. AI & LLM Crawlers

OpenAI: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot
Anthropic: ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, Anthropic-AI
Google AI: Google-Extended, Gemini, Gemini Deep Research
Perplexity: PerplexityBot, Perplexity-AI
Meta: Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-ExternalFetcher, FacebookExternalHit
xAI: GrokBot, xAI-Crawler
ByteDance: ByteSpider
DeepSeek: DeepSeek Bot, DeepSeek Web Crawler
Apple: Applebot-Extended (Apple Intelligence)
Mistral AI: MistralAI Crawler
Cohere: Cohere-AI
Amazon: AmazonBot
AI Datasets & Aggregators: Common Crawl (CCBot), Diffbot, You.com (YouBot), DuckAssistBot, Allen AI (AI2Bot), Webz.io / Omgili, ImageSift, Timpi, Katerat, SentientMachine, Pango

2. Search Engine Indexers

Googlebot, Google Asset Service, Google Inspection Tool
Bingbot, Applebot, Baidu Spider, YandexBot / Yandex Engine
DuckDuckBot, Sogou Spider, Exabot, Qwantify, SeznamBot, PetalBot, CocCoc Bot
Moz DotBot, AhrefsBot, SemrushBot, Majestic MJ12bot

3. Social Previews & Uptime Monitors

TwitterBot / X, LinkedInBot, WhatsApp Preview, TelegramBot, Slackbot, DiscordBot, Pinterest Bot
UptimeRobot, Pingdom, Site24x7, StatusCake, Screaming Frog SEO Spider, Seltz Sitemap Fetcher

4. Developer Tools & Headless Scrapers

Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium, Headless Chrome, PhantomJS, Cypress
Python (Requests, urllib, aiohttp), Scrapy Framework
cURL, Wget, HTTPie, Postman Runtime, Insomnia
Node.js (Axios, Fetch, Got), Go HTTP, Java HTTP Client, Apache HttpClient, OkHttp, Guzzle PHP, Perl libwww, WinHTTP

5. Automated Endpoint Scrapers

Flags unauthenticated direct automated scrapes targeting sensitive or automated endpoints like /wp-json/oembed/, /.well-known/, /feed, /rss, /wp-cron.php, /xmlrpc.php, and /wp-comments-post.php.

Included Shortcodes

[realtrace_smart_counter] – Displays a complete visitor card showing total humans, bots, and the verified Human Score percentage.
[realtrace_traffic_battle] – Displays an interactive split progress bar comparing human visitors against AI scrapers.
[realtrace_human_counter] – Outputs the raw formatted count of verified human visitors.
[realtrace_ai_counter] – Outputs the raw formatted count of detected bots and AI scrapers.

RealTrace AI – Real Human and AI Traffic Counter