AI crawlers on a WordPress site. 26 names, and which ones actually turned up
Every block list names 20 or 30 AI crawlers. We recorded two WordPress sites for a month and ranked which of the 26 names actually turned up, which never did, and how many visits used a real bot's name from an address its company does not list.
ClaudeBot is hammering your server. Here is what it is doing and how to slow it down
ClaudeBot collects pages that may train Anthropic's Claude models. What it actually did on two ordinary WordPress sites this month, how to check a visit is real, and three ways to slow or block it without blocking the Anthropic bots that send you readers.
Should you block AI bots? It depends which of the three jobs they are doing
AI bots do three different jobs on your site. Training crawls give nothing back, search crawls let assistants find you later, and live reads turn into visitors. Here is which to block, which to keep, and how to do it on WordPress.