Bot Traffic Silently Inflates Web Analytics Denominators, Skewing Conversion Rates
An observer found that 82% of sessions on a monitored site were bots, yet every one of those sessions was counted in the conversion-rate denominator, understating true performance. This reflects a structural gap in standard analytics setups: without bot filtering, conversion and engagement metrics used for business decisions are systematically distorted.
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