Cleotic

WordPress setup for AI traffic tracking

Cleotic for WordPress records AI crawler and AI-referral events locally in WordPress. A Cleotic connection is optional.

Local mode

Install the plugin and leave the connection key empty to keep data inside WordPress. Local mode stores AI-positive events only:

  • AI crawler visits from known user agents
  • AI referrals from known referrers and recognised utm_source values
  • Top touched pages and recent local evidence

Local mode does not send data to Cleotic.

Connect to Cleotic

  1. In Cleotic, create a tracking site and choose WordPress as the platform.
  2. Click Generate key.
  3. Copy the one-time connection key.
  4. In WordPress, open Cleotic > AI Traffic.
  5. Paste the key and run Test connection.

The key is shown only once. If you lose it, rotate the key in Cleotic and paste the new key into WordPress.

Sync modes

All eligible pageviews is recommended. WordPress queues public pageviews and syncs them to Cleotic so Cleotic can calculate AI traffic share.

AI events only syncs AI-positive crawler and referral events. Cleotic will show crawler and referral evidence, but AI share is marked incomplete because total pageviews are not available.

Caching limits

WordPress server-side tracking can only see requests that reach WordPress/PHP. Full-page CDN caches can serve some visits before WordPress runs. The optional frontend beacon can help catch AI-referral visits from cached pages, but it does not send all browser pageviews in V1.

Privacy

The plugin strips query strings and fragments from stored URLs and referrers. Raw visitor IPs are not sent to Cleotic by the WordPress plugin.