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Ask HN: Do you measure non human traffic impact as a financial metric?
In two recent audits, automated traffic was materially impacting paid media ROI and API quota allocation.
What surprised me wasn’t the presence of bots. It was how normalized the distortion had become inside analytics baselines.
Are teams explicitly tracking non human session ratios as part of financial reporting, or is traffic integrity still treated separately from data quality and ML pipelines?
- redwine13 8mo agoIn two recent audits,we saw roughly 18–30% synthetic sessions affecting paid attribution and API quotas. Curious whether teams are tracking this explicitly as a financial reporting line item, or if it’s still treated purely as a security problem.