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RealTrace AI – Real Human and AI Traffic Counter

v1.1.2 · by adnan.limdi

Tracks visits via dual-layer detection, classifies human vs AI crawlers, and delivers high-precision offline geolocation analytics.

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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.

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