# People & visitors

> See every visitor as a person - identified users by name, anonymous humans by a stable alias, and bots labelled honestly as crawlers - each with a full history.

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

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**People** turns raw traffic into a list of individuals. Each row is one visitor with their whole history behind it - the pages they viewed, the events they fired, and the traits you've set. Click any row to open the full profile.

SM

Sam Rivera

sam@acme.com · Acme2m

AP

Amber Panda

Anonymous · /pricing9m

Googlebot

Crawler · /blog14mBots kept honest

Identified users show their name; anonymous humans get a friendly alias; bots are labelled as crawlers.

## How a person is shown

OakData never invents a human out of a bot. The name and picture follow one rule ([identity resolution](https://oakdata.co/docs/concepts/identity) has the full story):

- **Identified user** - their real name and email, once you've called `oak.identify()`.
- **Anonymous human** - a stable, friendly alias (like *Amber Panda*) and an avatar seeded from their id, so you can recognise a returning visitor without knowing who they are.
- **Bot** - its real crawler name (like *Googlebot*) and a robot glyph. A crawler's identity *is* the crawler - it's never dressed up as a person.

## Inside a profile

Open a person and you get everything OakData knows about them:

- **Traits & groups** - email, plan, company, and any other attributes you've set.
- **Activity** - every session and event on a timeline, plus a link to watch the [replay](https://oakdata.co/docs/using/replay).
- **Related people** - other profiles that look like the same person (same login, same device, or same network), each labelled with why - so you can confirm a merge or leave them separate.

> **Same login merges automatically** Two profiles that ever signed in as the same user are folded into one - no action needed. Device and network matches are only ever *suggested*, because identical hardware on a shared network isn't proof. You confirm those yourself.

## Where to next

- [Identity resolution](https://oakdata.co/docs/concepts/identity) - How anonymous activity stitches to known users.

- [Session replay](https://oakdata.co/docs/using/replay) - Watch what a person actually did.