About
The Company
Dark Visitors is built in New York City by a team with experience building things at Instagram, Meta, Vimeo, PayPal, Intuit, and various startups. If you want to reach out, feel free to send an email.
The Product
Half of your traffic is invisible to you. It comes from the hidden ecosystem of AI assistants, scrapers, and other bots swarming across the internet. Analyze, protect, and optimize your content for these artificial agents, which are becoming more intelligent every day.
Features
- Keep Your Robots.txt Updated Automatically: Use the API or WordPress plugin to generate a robots.txt that continuously stays up to date with the latest known agents, which are changing every day.
- Protect Your Content From Scraping: Block agents who try to ignore your robots.txt rules.
- Expose Your Hidden Traffic With Agent Analytics: Get realtime insight into the increasingly meaningful activity of artificial agents that other analytics platforms hide from you.
- Spot Emerging AI Trends: See when people are using AI assistants or autonomous agents to access your website on their behalf.
- Identify Top Agents and Pages: See which agents visit your website the most, and which of your pages they're most interested in.
- Connect Your Website in Seconds: Use either the API or the WordPress plugin.
Links to demos can be found on the home page.
Website Owner FAQ
Is Dark Visitors free?
Dark Visitors is a freemium service. Most features are free, but you can choose to pay for premium features. More detail can be found on the pricing page.
What are some examples of agents?
Examples include GPTBot, CCBot, Claudebot, PerplexityBot, Googlebot, etc. See the full agent list for more.
Why should I care about agents?
There are many reasons. Their activity affects:
- Whether your content is used in AI model training
- If your users can use AI assistants to access your website
- How your pages appear in search engine results
- Server resource usage
- Etc.
Agent Operator FAQ
How do I add my agent?
Please send us an email, and we'll add a page for it.
Why should I add my agent?
Your agent page will help promote it to new users. It also gives website owners visibility into what it's doing, so they can better optimize for it.
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