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Rule aeo-72e6780e983c8495 · measurement · hypothesis, not yet confirmed

Track AI crawler traffic server-side with IP verification. GPTBot can make 470x more requests than Googlebot on fresh domains. User agent strings are spoofable; verify against official IP ranges.

Applies to: all

Hypothesis: the reasoning is published, but no independent evidence confirms it yet. Test it on your own pages before you rely on it.

Why this matters

Bot traffic dwarfs human traffic (~98% of requests). Client-side analytics miss all bot traffic. Without IP verification, spoofed bots may inflate false metrics.

Implementation

Type: not_automatable

Anti-pattern

Relying solely on client-side analytics or user-agent-only bot detection for traffic analysis.

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