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๐Ÿค–AI Bot Traffic Tools
In today's call I got to share interesting new tools we're testing: As much as we're used to follow Google Analytics (GA4) as a trusted source of data, it's undeniable that the data layer is the most challenging one at this moment. I've been actively looking for a server side tracking tool that is accesible enough to share here, so far it seemed like those tools were highly technical and complex. But I've found a couple of really simple to set up and test for /Wordpress/: - Hueston LLM Bot Tracking. - Dark Visitors. -Attached you'll see a couple of screenshots of how they look like. Have you got any experience tracking AI bot traffic or you got any software recommendation?
๐Ÿค–AI Bot Traffic Tools
1 like โ€ข Jan 9
So these are just classifying the activity hitting your /Wordpress/ folder in real-time (as opposed to analyzing your web logs)?
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@Julian Lopez No, sorry. I've had a love/hate relationship with WP for a while now, because it's such a target for hackers. It makes setting up certain types of sites really fast. But when I set up a new WP site, I'll go into the web log a few days later and it's just flooded with hits from bots and script kiddies trying to find known exploits that simply eat up CPU resources. Most of them are for Windows servers and I only use Linux hosting, so it's just a huge waste. In fact, the majority of web servers online today (>70%) are NOT Windows-based, yet the majority of these probes ARE. Unless these apps are filtering out this crap, they're not telling you anything useful because they're coming from VPNs set up around the world that are looking for old Windows exploits in non-Win servers. They should be redirected to a tar-pit if nothing else! I mean, if you're going to waste even more resources trying to recognize these things, at least DO SOMETHING SEMI-USEFUL WITH THEM other than just count them up! "Oh, look, I had 4,385 searches yesterday for files in known places from bots thinking this is a Widows server!" So what? Most of the rest are just bots scraping your site that ignore your /robots.txt file thinking they're going to find some gems hidden there -- instead they eat up your bandwidth by sucking down huge temp files that are worthless. A scant few percent might be hits from sites using keywords you're actually trying to rank for; that's interesting, but it's just a tiny percentage of the overall flotsam and jetsam of requests that EVERY site, and especially WP sites, must endure.
Reddit=Mostly Female and Car Shopping Audience ๐Ÿš—
Isn't this relevant? @David Makrias https://www.business.reddit.com/blog/female-car-buyers
1 like โ€ข Nov '25
@Kurt Koenige I find these kinds of questions generally useless. I'm in some podcasting groups and there's a regular flow of the same few questions, including, "What's the best podcasting mic?" and predictably, everybody who responds says THEIR MIC is the best -- whatever THEY HAVE. "What's the best color?" MY FAVORITE COLOR! "What's the best Mexican food dish?" MY FAVORITE DISH! It's sort of a popularity contest among whomever is there. And in my mind, it's almost totally meaningless. Most podcasters don't know the difference between an omnidirectional and unidirectional / cardioid mic. Most cheap mics are omni's, so naturally when people ask what's the best mic, people with quiet rooms and omni mics will report whatever THEY HAVE is. And what do you think another popular question is? "My [omni] mic picks up all kinds of background noise! What can I do to help with that?" The CORRECT answer is, "Switch to a unidirectional / cardioid mic." But instead, since nobody knows the difference, what you get is a whole bunch of stupid suggestions for sound-proofing your room or setting up a recording booth in your closet. Because, what's predictable is that the most popular mics are omni's and that's what a lot of people inevitably buy, so they figure EVERYBODY has to deal with that background-noise problem. No, just those who followed the herd and blindly bought the most popular mics. I cannot see this pattern being different for anything else. "What's the best dog for an apartment dweller?" "What's the best food processor?" "What kind of ________ should I buy?" You're inevitably asking people to tell you "What did YOU buy?" and they'll HAPPILY tell you! If you ask them "Why?" they'll frequently say, "That's what the most commonly mentioned one was in these other online forums." Well, sure, of course. It's a popularity contest! I guess the Good News is ... you can usually get a LOT of people responding to whatever you ask about. Otherwise, it just tells you what most of the people there bought and find it acceptable for their needs.
1 like โ€ข Nov '25
@Kurt Koenige I was referring to forums like this where you depend on people to answer, not AI. Of course they can ask AI instead -- which will eventually destroy lots of FB groups. AI also has a tendency to wander all over the place and dump more info than someone can handle (sort of like me, at times). As for whether the AI platforms knows details about you from other chats, that depends on whether you have enabled it to share memory between chats. ChatGPT used to do that, then stopped, then made it optional where you can enable it in your settings. Claude never did it, then snuck it into their settings recently, but it's off by default. This is something relatively few people know about or understand. And this these are changes that have happened just in 2025.
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