The Hidden Cost of Bot Traffic: Your Conversion Rate Is Lying
Bad data makes every decision more expensive.
BLUF: Bots can represent 20-40% of web traffic. If you do not filter them, your conversion rate, CAC, and experiment results are all skewed. Human-verified analytics fixes the signal.
- Bot traffic inflates page views and hides conversion drops
- Human verification separates real intent from automation
- Clean data improves marketing ROI
How bots distort your funnel
Bots click ads, scrape pages, and trigger sessions that never convert. The result is a fake top-of-funnel that drags down your conversion rate.
Marketing teams often react by changing messaging or landing pages, when the real issue is traffic quality.
Until you filter automation, every A/B test is contaminated.
Let us run a Human vs Machine scan and quantify bot share on your top 10 landing pages.
Run a bot scanWhere bots hide in the data
- Short sessions with zero scroll or interaction variance.
- High-frequency clicks with near-identical timing.
- Datacenter ASN bursts that spike on a single campaign.
Human verification scoring
AnonView scores sessions using movement variance, timing distribution, and intent context. It does not fingerprint; it only looks at behavior patterns.
let score = timing_score + movement_score + intent_score;let is_human = score >= policy.human_threshold;if is_human { record("human_verified");} else { record("automation_detected");}Impact on marketing ROI
A typical lift after removing automated sessions.
Action plan for growth teams
- Baseline the bot share per channel and per landing page.
- Compare human-only conversion rates with marketing reporting.
- Shift budget toward channels with verified human intent.
Frequently Asked Questions
In many B2B funnels, bots represent 20-40% of sessions, especially on paid traffic and content-heavy pages.
The human verification model is conservative. It prioritizes not excluding legitimate users while still removing obvious automation.
No, but you can isolate them and keep them from contaminating your analytics and decisions.
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