About this plugin
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.