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 us an email.

We Are Not "Anti-Bot"

Our mission is to accelerate the transition to an agentic internet where trusted AI traffic unlocks new levels of human value.

• Accelerate the agentic internet: With AI, the internet is inevitably transitioning to a place where more agents visit websites than humans.
• Build trust between humans and agents: Create a transparent ecosystem where humans and agents are easily able to self-identify.
• Turn agent traffic into human value: Maximize the productivity of humans operating AI agents, and the value for humans creating content that AI agents interact with.

Website Owner FAQ

Is Dark Visitors free?

Dark Visitors is a freemium service. The free tier has an extremely generous event limit that's more than enough for 90% of websites. You can choose to upgrade if you want to unlock premium features or need events beyond the free tier. More details can be found on the pricing page.

What are some examples of agents (bots)?

Examples include Operator, GPTBot, CCBot, Claudebot, PerplexityBot, Googlebot, Bytespider, etc. See the full agent list for more.

Why should I care about visits from agents?

There are many reasons to care. Their activity affects:

• Whether your content is used in AI model training
• The success rate of autonomous AI agents executing tasks for human users (e.g. making purchases)
• If potential users can use AI assistants to analyze and ask questions about your website
• How your pages appear in search engine results
• Server resource usage
• Etc.

With ongoing advancements in AI, their activity is becoming more meaningful every day.

Is my website really being visited by agents?

Almost certainly. In fact, about half of your traffic is likely coming from them right now. This has been observed across websites of all categories and sizes.

Agent Operator FAQ

How do I add my agent to the directory?

Please send us an email, and we'll be happy to 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.