# 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.

Source: https://oakdata.co/docs/using/bots

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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 hitsGoogle

GPTBot

AI agent · 318 hitsOpenAIOff 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](https://oakdata.co/docs/concepts/bots).

## 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](https://oakdata.co/docs/using/people).

> **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.

## Where to next

- [Bot handling](https://oakdata.co/docs/concepts/bots) - The scoring pipeline and verification signals.

- [Filter your data](https://oakdata.co/docs/using/filters) - The bots toggle sits with your other filters.