Better Bot Detection & Improved Referral Analytics

Two new improvements for existing analytics today:

Improved Bot Detection and Analytics

This improvement has multiple parts, and each will affect the analytics massively:

• Cligs can now detect thousands more bot clicks than previously, which dramatically improves the analytics.
• Unfortunately, for now this detection is only for cligs created from now onwards. There is more to do to make the bot detector even more accurate, and the better detection will be applied to your older cligs too then.
• Important: The Cligs analytics (the Executive Summary, Geo Analytics, Referrers, and Social Media) now only show human clicks. Bot hits are completely ignored unless you’re specifically looking at the Bot Analytics tab. The upshot is that your click counts will be significantly lower, as the analytics are now ignoring a large part of the traffic. To see the total traffic, the breakdown is shown in the Bots analytics tab.
• I’m keen to hear your suggestions and feedback on this feature and the analytics in general. Please just let me know your thoughts.

Bug Fix: Referral Analytics

A user noted an inconsistency between the total traffic reported in the Executive Summary and the total traffic reported in the Referrers tab. On investigation, I found that the referrers reporting was not returning the full list of referrers as it should, and that’s now fixed.

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