{"slug": "over-the-last-days-i-did-a-lot-of-research-and-testing-on-how-to-detect-ai-on-it", "title": "Over the last days I did a lot of research and testing on how to detect AI agents on your website. Long story short: It's not so easy.", "summary": "Developer Quentin Wendegass tested detection of AI agents on a website by sending 23 of them to the site and found that most presented as human traffic, concluding that reliable agent detection is difficult. The hands-on testing effort highlights the limits of current bot-identification approaches for site operators.", "body_md": "We sent 23 AI agents to our website. Most looked human\nQuentin Wendegass\nQuentin Wendegass\nQuentin Wendegass\nFollow\nOct 27\nWe sent 23 AI agents to our website. Most looked human\n#\nai\n#\nwebdev\n#\nagents\n#\nanalytics\n1\nreaction\nAdd Comment\n15 min read", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/over-the-last-days-i-did-a-lot-of-research-and-testing-on-how-to-detect-ai-on-it", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/quentin_wendegass/over-the-last-days-i-did-a-lot-of-research-and-testing-on-how-to-detect-ai-agents-on-your-website-120", "published_at": "2026-10-27 08:07:06+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-27 08:12:36.674545+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-crawlers", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Quentin Wendegass"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/over-the-last-days-i-did-a-lot-of-research-and-testing-on-how-to-detect-ai-on-it", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/over-the-last-days-i-did-a-lot-of-research-and-testing-on-how-to-detect-ai-on-it.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/over-the-last-days-i-did-a-lot-of-research-and-testing-on-how-to-detect-ai-on-it.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/over-the-last-days-i-did-a-lot-of-research-and-testing-on-how-to-detect-ai-on-it.jsonld"}}