Bots & data quality

Crawlers and scrapers are detected and kept out of your numbers by default - here's how they're handled, and how to inspect them when you want to.

A big share of web traffic isn't people - it's search crawlers, scrapers, uptime monitors, and AI agents. OakData detects them and hides them from your reports by default, so your visitor counts, funnels, and revenue reflect real humans.

Show bots

Googlebot

Search · 1,204 hits

Google

GPTBot

AI agent · 318 hits

OpenAI
Off by default
Bots are off by default. Flip the toggle to inspect crawler traffic on its own.

How detection works

Every visit is scored on server-side signals - the declared client, IP ownership and reverse-DNS, request patterns - not just a user-agent string that anyone can fake. Verified crawlers keep their real name; the rest are flagged as automated. The full model is in bot handling.

Bots are labelled, never disguised

When you do show bots, they appear honestly: their crawler name and a robot glyph, never a made-up human alias or avatar. A bot can never slip into your people list looking like a customer - see people & visitors.

Why this matters

If bots counted as visitors, a crawl spike would look like a traffic win and quietly wreck your conversion rates. Filtering them out keeps every metric - and every decision you make from it - grounded in real people.

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