Are Spiders and Bots your customers?
Those who know what internet bots and spiders are, know that know that spiders and bots visit your site very day and multiple times a day. For those who don’t know here is the definition of bots according to Wikipedia : An Internet bot, also known as web robot, WWW robot or simply bot, is a software application that runs automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone. According to a recent survey , on an average about 51.8% of the website visitors are bots. Source: https://www.incapsula.com/blog/bot-traffic-report-2016.html One assumption many digital analysts make is that the JavaScript based analytics solutions such as Google Analytics , Adobe etc. either stop bots from executing the script or filter them out before calculating the metrics. Well, this assumption was true years ago, it was one of the selling points of JavaScri...