Azayem Bots Tracker – Bot Visits Logger

Description

Bots Tracker is a custom-built plugin designed to:

• Detect and log visits from search engine bots and crawlers.
• Store visits in a dedicated database table for analysis.
• Display detailed bot visits inside WordPress Admin (with filters, pagination, and per-URL crawl budget).
• Compare crawl budget between two time ranges (current vs previous period).

Main features:

1. Bot Detection & Logging

   • Detects various bots (Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot, etc.) using User-Agent signatures.
   • Saves bot name, visited URL path, IP address, and visit time to a custom database table.

2. Admin Dashboard Pages

   • Main Report: paginate and filter bot visits, with search by URL, bot name, and date range.
   • Crawl Budget by URL: aggregate visits per URL with total hits, unique bots, and first/last visit times.
   • Comparative Report: compare total crawl budget between current and previous periods.

3. Clean Uninstall

   • On plugin deletion, the custom database table and plugin options are removed from WordPress to keep your database clean.

4. Settings & Data Management

   • Configure how long bot visit logs are stored (data retention in days).
   • Enable or disable bot filtering to store only selected bots (e.g., only Googlebot and Bingbot) or to exclude specific bots.
   • Run on-demand database optimization for the bot visits table directly from the settings page.
   • Manually delete old records using a one-click cleanup tool.
   • Automatic cleanup via WP-Cron based on your configured retention period.

Privacy

This plugin stores the following data about bot visits in a custom database table:
– Bot name (derived from the User-Agent string)
– Bot IP address
– Visited URL path
– Visit timestamp

No data is sent to any third-party servers. This plugin tracks bots only, not human visitors.