dark-visitors
Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic
Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors.
Proof Health
Open evidenceCommercial opportunities need traceable source links before they are treated as build-worthy.
40.8% of this page's analysis has direct source links.
0 rows here require auditable proof before promotion.
0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.
Related Opportunities
5 marketsSource Evidence
Open evidence explorerRule-Breaking Visit Not Flagged for AhrefsBot: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: agencies, operators, and marketing teams · Wedge: verify analytics tracking, report freshness, automation handoffs, and client-visible metricsTotaly very useful: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: agencies, operators, and marketing teams · Wedge: verify analytics tracking, report freshness, automation handoffs, and client-visible metricsVery Useful Plugin: users show missing feature, pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: agencies, operators, and marketing teams · Wedge: verify analytics tracking, report freshness, automation handoffs, and client-visible metricsPHP errors “Undefined array key”: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: agencies, operators, and marketing teams · Wedge: verify analytics tracking, report freshness, automation handoffs, and client-visible metricsWhich options should I check to stop AI scraping?: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: agencies, operators, and marketing teams · Wedge: verify analytics tracking, report freshness, automation handoffs, and client-visible metricsRvent usage limit of the free plan: users show missing feature, pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: agencies, operators, and marketing teams · Wedge: verify analytics tracking, report freshness, automation handoffs, and client-visible metricsWork with All in one SEO robots.txt: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: agencies, operators, and marketing teams · Wedge: verify analytics tracking, report freshness, automation handoffs, and client-visible metricsBegun my review…: users show bugs, performance, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: agencies, operators, and marketing teams · Wedge: verify analytics tracking, report freshness, automation handoffs, and client-visible metricsThe user likes the bot tracking tool but gets Internal Server Error when opening a project page to review bot details.
Buyer: agencies, operators, and marketing teams · Wedge: verify analytics tracking, report freshness, automation handoffs, and client-visible metricsSuper useful!: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.
Buyer: agencies, operators, and marketing teams · Wedge: verify analytics tracking, report freshness, automation handoffs, and client-visible metricsCompetitor Context
6 shownRepeated Themes
0 shownNo repeated plugin-level themes have been generated yet.
Collected Signals
14 shown from 14 collectedThe user likes Dark Visitors but says its many AI blocking categories lack enough explanation to choose safely.
Evidence: it is very difficult to understand what exactly needs to be blockedThe user likes the bot tracking tool but gets Internal Server Error when opening a project page to review bot details.
Evidence: get “Internal Server Error” when I open the project page to review any specificsThe reviewer says Dark Visitors helped identify bot crawlers that sometimes took their website down, though they blocked some manually with htaccess.
Evidence: Our website was sometimes down due to bot-crawlers, with this tool it is easy to solve.Consider Adding More Categories to Block?: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: My only problem is that SEO Crawlers are also unwanted and dominating my Dark Visitors stats to the point when they’re not very useful.Easy to understand and set up!: users praise easy, which suggests what competitors already do well.
Evidence: Easy to understand and set up!Totaly very useful: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: Totaly very useful Bingbot and googlebot are hitting my site with hundreds of visits per minute and Gavin from support spotted the problem immediately!Rule-Breaking Visit Not Flagged for AhrefsBot: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: Rule-Breaking Visit Not Flagged for AhrefsBot This is logged: 51.222.253.4 - - [17/Aug/2024:14:16:12 +1000] "GET /search-plants?Soil[]=Fertile&ShowMatchingPlants HTTP/2" 200 316813 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/)" While “robots.txt” contains: User-agent: AhrefsBot Disallow: / To me the log above shows that this is a “RVery Useful Plugin: users show missing feature, pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: 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.Rvent usage limit of the free plan: users show missing feature, pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: Rvent usage limit of the free plan So, I received this message in an email: “You just hit the analytics event usage limit of the free plan for the month.Work with All in one SEO robots.txt: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: Work with All in one SEO robots.txt Can the plugin be modified to add it’s entries to the robots.txt file that All in one SEO creates?Which options should I check to stop AI scraping?: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: Which options should I check to stop AI scraping?Begun my review…: users show bugs, performance, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: Begun my review… Please remind me in a month to provide an update on the performance of this plugin on a heavily visited website.PHP errors “Undefined array key”: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: PHP errors “Undefined array key” Hello, I am getting these errors when activating your plugin Warning: Undefined array key "HTTP_USER_AGENT" in /plugins/dark-visitors/plugin.php on line 228 Warning: Undefined array key "REQUEST_METHOD" in /plugins/dark-visitors/plugin.php on line 238 I am running PHP version 8.1 Any help ?Super useful!: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.
Evidence: This is a great plugin.