Description
Trimardeau SEO Log records every visit from search engine bots (Googlebot, Bingbot, DuckDuckBot…), AI training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Bytespider…), live AI assistants (ChatGPT-User, Perplexity-User…), SEO tools and social preview bots — and turns them into clear, actionable statistics. Nothing to configure: activate it and watch the bots arrive.
AI visibility (GEO). Generative Engine Optimization starts with one question: do AI crawlers and assistants read your site? Trimardeau SEO Log answers it with dedicated stats for AI training crawlers and logs every live AI assistant visit — which assistant reads which page, in real time.
Everything is measured where you work:
- Dashboard — bot visits over time, trend vs the previous period, most crawled content, most active bots, HTTP status codes served to bots, hour-by-day crawl heatmap.
- Contents — a sortable, filterable overview of every post, page, term, archive or sitemap visited by bots, with the dominant bot for each.
- Live Log — the raw, chronological journal of every bot request (bot, URL, HTTP status).
- 404 Monitor — every broken URL that bots keep hitting, grouped and ranked, so you can fix or redirect what actually matters to crawlers.
- Per-content stats — last crawl date, 30-day chart and per-bot counts on every post, page, custom post type and taxonomy term.
Lightweight and privacy-friendly by design:
- Human visitors are never logged — zero extra SQL query for them, no cookies, no consent banner needed.
- No external requests: everything (including charts) is bundled.
- Raw log retention is configurable (30 days by default, 0 = keep forever); daily aggregated statistics are kept forever and stay small.
- Fully translatable — French, Spanish, German, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese translations are maintained on translate.wordpress.org.
- Bundles Chart.js v4.5.1 (MIT) for the charts — no CDN, loaded only on the plugin’s admin pages.
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Installation
- Install and activate the plugin.
- That’s it — bot visits start being recorded immediately. Open the SEO Log menu.
FAQ
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Does it slow my site down?
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No. Human visitors trigger zero extra SQL query. Bot hits are written after the response is sent, so bots don’t wait either.
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Does it work behind a cache or CDN?
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Bot requests that reach WordPress are logged. Pages served entirely from a full-page cache or CDN edge never reach PHP and cannot be seen by any WordPress plugin. Note that most search and AI crawlers frequently bypass caches.
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Is it GDPR compliant?
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Human visitors are never logged. Only requests from identified bots are stored, and you can delete everything on uninstall.
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What is the difference between AI training crawlers and AI assistants?
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Training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot…) collect content to train models. AI assistants (ChatGPT-User, Perplexity-User…) fetch your pages live while answering a user — meaning your content is being read and cited in real time. Both are fully logged, URLs included.
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How long is the data kept?
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Raw request logs: 30 days by default, configurable in the settings (0 = keep forever). Daily aggregated statistics: forever — they are tiny.
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Contributors & Developers
“Trimardeau SEO Log” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.4.1
- All plugin functions, classes, constants, options, hooks and database tables now use the longer
trimseologprefix (wastrm_seolog). - All SQL identifiers now go through
$wpdb->prepare()with the%iplaceholder; minimum required WordPress version raised to 6.2 accordingly.
1.4.0
- Plugin renamed to “Trimardeau SEO Log”.
- AI assistant visits (ChatGPT-User, Perplexity-User, Claude-User…) are now fully logged, URLs included, like every other bot family — with a dedicated dashboard card.
- New setting: raw log retention in days (0 = keep forever).
- Hardened sanitization of request data (user agent, URL, HTTP method) before logging.
- Updated bundled Chart.js to 4.5.1.
- Translations are now delivered through translate.wordpress.org instead of bundled files.
1.3.1
- Performance: the nightly aggregation now only processes days since the last rollup instead of re-scanning the whole raw log.
- Completed German, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese translations for the 1.3.0 strings.
1.3.0
- Latest AI assistant detections shown on the dashboard and in the Live Log.
- New notice when raw logs approach the 30-day purge.
1.2.0
- New: Live Log screen — chronological journal of raw bot requests.
- New: 404 Monitor screen — broken URLs hit by bots, grouped and ranked.
- New: trends on dashboard cards (vs previous period).
- New: onboarding notice and helpful empty state before the first bot visit.
- New: German, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese translations.
1.1.0
- New: Contents screen — sortable, filterable overview of every page, post and term visited by bots.
- New: 30-day bot hits chart in the post editor metabox.
1.0.0
- Initial release.