The other side of the coin are the inflated traffic statistics that include all kind of bots & crawlers with spoofed user-agent, and for low traffic sites like

The other side of the coin are the inflated traffic statistics that include all kind of bots & crawlers with spoofed user-agent, and for low traffic sites like niche personal blogs with a custom domain it can be 90+% of the server-side logged visits. How proud was the 15-year old me with my first .com domain, having over 100 visitors per day. Little did I know that the actual number of visitors was much, much less than that.