Soleil AI Counter detects and counts visits from known AI-related user agents in WordPress.

The plugin is designed as a neutral AI access meter. It does not judge whether AI access is good or bad. It records detected access facts so site administrators can review them and make their own decisions.

Soleil AI Counter can be useful for sites that want to understand AI-related crawler activity, whether they want to welcome AI access, limit AI access, or simply observe what is happening.

Important limitations:

Detection is based on User-Agent strings.
User-Agent values can be spoofed.
Counts do not guarantee citation, training, indexing, ranking, or inclusion in any AI service.
Browser, page, CDN, and server caching may affect when WordPress records a request.
The Free version is designed to avoid storing personally identifying visitor information.
The Free version does not send data to external services.
If Soleil AI Counter Pro is active, the Free version pauses its own tracking and UI to avoid duplicate processing.

Features

Detects supported AI-related User-Agent strings.
Counts Human-like Pageviews for normal logged-out page views that are not detected as AI Bot requests.
Shows today’s detected AI-related accesses.
Shows today’s Human-like Pageviews.
Shows detected accesses from the past 7 days.
Shows Human-like Pageviews from the past 7 days.
Shows cumulative detected accesses.
Shows cumulative Human-like Pageviews.
Shows AI ratio, Human ratio, and a simple AI / Human comparison bar.
Shows totals by supported bot.
Uses a polished overview-style Free admin UI.
Shows the latest detected access time and bot name.
Shows each supported bot’s latest detected time.
Adds a WordPress admin page under Tools.
Adds a compact dashboard widget.
Provides a simple [soleil_ai_counter] shortcode.
Stores anonymous aggregate counts locally in WordPress options.

Supported AI Bots

The Free version includes these default User-Agent fragments:

GPTBot
OAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT-User
ClaudeBot
Claude-SearchBot
PerplexityBot

The list can be filtered by developers with soleil_ai_counter_bot_patterns.

Privacy

Soleil AI Counter Free is designed to store aggregate count data only.

By default, it does not store:

IP addresses
Cookies
Visitor identifiers
Referrer URLs
Raw User-Agent logs

The plugin reads the request User-Agent during a WordPress page request to classify known AI-related bots. If a supported bot is detected, the plugin increments local AI aggregate counters. If no supported AI Bot is detected, a logged-out singular page view is counted as a Human-like Pageview.

Human-like Pageviews are pageview-like counts. They are not visitor counts, people counts, session counts, or unique-user metrics.

No data is sent to external services by the plugin.

Cache limitations

Soleil AI Counter runs inside WordPress/PHP. If a request is served entirely by a CDN, web server cache, page cache, or hosting cache before WordPress runs, the plugin may not count that request as either AI or Human-like.

Counts may differ from server logs, CDN logs, analytics tools, or AI service reporting. The plugin is not a complete access log.