About this plugin
BotSieve helps website owners understand who is actually visiting their website.
Traditional analytics tools count nearly all requests equally, including bots, crawlers, scanners and suspicious traffic. BotSieve focuses on traffic quality and behavioral analysis instead of raw traffic numbers.
The plugin analyzes incoming requests locally on your WordPress installation and classifies traffic into categories such as:
- Real visitors
- AI crawlers
- SEO crawlers
- Known bots
- Suspicious requests
BotSieve provides a modern dashboard with real-time traffic insights and crawler intelligence.
Features
- Traffic Quality Overview (last 24 hours)
- Real visitor vs crawler detection
- AI crawler detection
- Suspicious traffic detection
- Top detected bots overview
- Average trust score
- Request activity timeline
- Behavioral crawler insights
- Rapid crawl detection
- URL exploration detection
- Lightweight modern dashboard UI
- No external API calls
- No third-party tracking
- Local-only data storage
Dashboard Overview
BotSieve includes:
- Traffic Quality cards
- Real vs crawler traffic distribution
- Top Bots monitoring
- Traffic activity timeline
- Behavioral insights
- Aggressive crawler detection
- Trust scoring system
- Live monitoring interface
Use Cases
BotSieve is useful for:
- Website owners
- SEO professionals
- Publishers and bloggers
- Lead generation websites
- Security-conscious site operators
- AI crawler monitoring
- WordPress administrators
- Anyone interested in cleaner traffic analytics
Privacy
BotSieve does not send collected traffic data to external servers.
All request analysis happens locally inside your WordPress installation.
The plugin stores request-related metadata such as:
- URLs
- Request timestamps
- User agents
- Request behavior patterns
- Hashed IP information
No personal visitor profiles are created.