Free WordPress plugin: Suspicious Traffic Viewer for masked and hard-to-spot traffic
Following up on my earlier post about AI crawlers and masked traffic, I turned the idea into a free WordPress plugin.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1sxvtqz/wordpress_sites_why_allow_ai_crawlers_if_they/
LiteCache Suspicious Traffic Viewer (STV) is not a generic traffic viewer and not a realtime logger. It focuses on suspicious traffic that often looks normal, blends in, or only becomes questionable when observed over time.
This is also not some speculative reaction to the current AI crawler hype. The logic behind STV is based on about 10 years of practical validation. AI crawlers did not create the problem. They mainly made it harder to ignore.
Another reason behind STV is that conventional traffic analyzers like GA4 or Matomo may see a lot, but still not everything. Especially not the traffic that deliberately avoids the very mechanisms those analyzers rely on.
Masked requests are only part of the problem. A much bigger issue is simple direct HTTP request traffic that bypasses typical analytics tracking completely, while still generating a large number of requests and unnecessary server load. That is not theory for me. It is part of my daily work when 1 human-like request can be accompanied by 500 clearly not-human-like requests.
STV is db-less while logging, but it has a clear limitation: requests fully served by page cache or CDN cache remain invisible.
The plugin will be available in the WordPress Plugin Repository soon. Until then, I can share the readme.txt with anyone interested.
If you want to read it or give feedback before release, let me know.
STV Plugin readme.txt: https://www.litecache.dev/readme.txt
LiteCache Suspicious Traffic Viewer Makes The Invisible Visible!
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