Known Agents — WordPress Analytics Plugin
Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic
by Known Agents · WordPress.org page · Website
Known Agents has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 21,353 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on May 14, 2026, tested up to WordPress 6.9.7.
Known Agents at a glance
Is Known Agents well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Watch traffic from crawlers and scrapers as it happens: Track the hidden activity of all known artificial agents visiting your website in real time
- Replay AI agent navigation patterns: Follow a single agent’s session as it navigates your website. Find where agents get stuck, identify dead ends, and help…
- Catch bots spoofing legitimate agents: Identify bad actors and unauthorized scrapers pretending to be legitimate agents like Googlebot or Bingbot
- Never miss a bot traffic spike: Stay informed when an agent’s traffic starts surging or overloading your server
- Reveal which agents visit most, and which pages they target: Break down bot traffic by page to understand what they’re interested in
- Export reports to CSV: Download agent activity reports for custom analysis
Known Agents reviews and ratings
6 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
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Very very helpful
Very good: shows all bot-crawlers.Our website was sometimes down due to bot-crawlers, with this tool it is easy to solve. Very good logging of bots.This was the only good plugin I could find for this purpose.Some bots ignore robots.txt. So I manually changed htaccess, that worked very good.
weboersma -
Easy to understand and set up!
Easy to understand and set up. Keep on keepin' on ...
nealumphred -
Totaly very useful
Bingbot and googlebot are hitting my site with hundreds of visits per minute and Gavin from support spotted the problem immediately!
cotros -
Very Useful Plugin
An easy improvement would be to link to the settings page from the plugin entry like other plugins, other than that, in general this plugin and its online dashboard is generally well thought out and useful. My website is small and has limited resources that get overrun by crawlers making it unavailable. This plugin helps identify the culprits and decide if I should block them or not. For free you can block them in robots.txt, as I have a physical file, the plugin won't touch that but its easy to add manually. It will report those crawlers that ignore the robots file and the paid version will enforce those rules, but I just update ".htaccess" myself. I'm reducing my rating by a star since you won't get much "Agent Analytics" (per month) and for my tiny site it quickly ran out, we are a NFP so don't have money to burn on subscriptions. The the description for the plan incorrectly states "Unlimited Agent Analytics" when the plan only includes 100,000 events.
Dennis Bareis -
Begun my review...
Please remind me in a month to provide an update on the performance of this plugin on a heavily visited website.
hackrepair -
Super useful!
This is a great plugin. I had no idea how many bots were visiting my website every day. Super interesting insights, and a handy way to keep my robots.txt up to date. Thanks!
ghking
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Details
Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors.
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Rankings Known Agents competes in
Tags
- aeo
- analytics
- geo
- robots.txt
- visibility
- Version
- 1.32.0
- Last updated
- May 14, 2026
- First published
- Jun 9, 2024
- Requires WordPress
- 6.0
- Tested up to
- 6.9.7
- Requires PHP
- 7.0
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
Known Agents FAQ
What does Known Agents do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, Known Agents offers Watch traffic from crawlers and scrapers as it happens: Track the hidden activity of all known artificial agents visiting your website in real time, Replay AI agent navigation patterns: Follow a single agent’s session as it navigates your website. Find where agents get stuck, identify dead ends, and help, Catch bots spoofing legitimate agents: Identify bad actors and unauthorized scrapers pretending to be legitimate agents like Googlebot or Bingbot, Never miss a bot traffic spike: Stay informed when an agent’s traffic starts surging or overloading your server and Reveal which agents visit most, and which pages they target: Break down bot traffic by page to understand what they’re interested in.
How many active installs does Known Agents have?
WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs for Known Agents as of September 7, 2026.
Is Known Agents still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on May 14, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 6.9.7.
Does Known Agents have good support?
On the WordPress.org forum, 0 of 1 recent support threads for Known Agents are marked resolved. That is the developer's free support; a paid version usually comes with its own channel.
Is Known Agents free?
Known Agents is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.