My Visitors Are Not All Human. That Is Fine
The article discusses the author's experience with web traffic analytics, revealing that a significant portion of site visitors are not human. The author created a traffic dashboard that categorizes visitors, finding that automated traffic often mimics human behavior. This shift in web traffic dynamics raises questions about the nature of online engagement and the role of bots in digital spaces.
- ▪The author's traffic dashboard shows that humans are often a minority among site visitors.
- ▪Modern automation can disguise itself as human traffic, complicating the distinction between real users and bots.
- ▪Residential proxy networks route automated traffic through real consumer connections, making it appear local and human.
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AI in Practice My Visitors Are Not All Human. That Is Fine. I built a traffic dashboard for my own site. What I found wasn't alarming, it was interesting. A publisher's notes on bots, borrowed identities, and editorial agency. Rob Hoeijmakers 29 Apr 2026 • 4 min read Share My site had a busy week. My analytics tool showed good numbers. Then I looked at the raw traffic logs and started counting visitors that weren't people.Not a problem. A discovery.For the past few months I've been running a custom traffic layer on this site, built on top of Cloudflare, which sits between my visitors and my server and sees everything that arrives.
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