Advanced Bot Detection
See how much of your traffic is really people
Simple bots announce themselves and every analytics tool removes them. The rest run a real browser and are counted as visitors. Advanced Bot Detection scores every visit so you can tell them apart. It is part of the Pro, Business and Enterprise plans.
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A score on every visit
When a visit starts, our own machine learning model scores it in real time as likely human, unsure or likely bot. It needs no setup.
Labels, never deletes
Scored visits stay in your reports. You decide whether to look at the bots, compare them with people or leave them out.
Honeypots that teach it
Pages only a bot can reach. Each bot that walks into one shows the model what bots look like on your site.
Filter any report
Break visits down by bot score, or filter the dashboard, the API and an experiment's results to likely humans.
Why it matters
Bots that look like people inflate pageviews, push conversion rates down and make campaigns look better or worse than they are. Nothing in an ordinary report tells you which visits were real.
- Catches scrapers, AI agents and automation that send an ordinary browser string
- Basic bot filtering stays on for every plan and removes known bots before they are counted
- Bots never count toward your monthly events
Private by design
The score is worked out in memory from the request and only the number is kept with the visit. Honeypot hits keep only a keyed hash of a bot's address, never the address, to train the model, and they are deleted after 12 months.
- Only the score is stored with a visit
- No cookies and nothing stored in the browser
Watch: Bot detection: is your analytics counting bots as people? (2:08)
Bot detection for website analytics: bots that run a real browser and look like people are in your numbers, inflating traffic and dragging down conversions.
Transcript
Some of your visitors aren't people. They're bots that look exactly like real visitors, and your analytics counts every one of them.
I'm James, founder of Privatus Analytics. Let me show you who's really on your site.
Last month your traffic jumped twenty percent. You told the team. Someone celebrated. Then conversions went down. Not because fewer people bought, but because a chunk of that new traffic was never going to buy. It wasn't human. Simple bots announce themselves, and every analytics tool removes them. The sneaky ones run a real browser, load your pages like a person, and pretend to be human. Most tools can't see them at all. So they sit inside your numbers. They inflate your traffic, drag down your conversion rate, and make one campaign look great and another look dead. Every decision after that starts from the wrong number. The budget, the redesign, the report to your boss. And the tools that do try to catch them usually do it by fingerprinting every visitor, which is its own kind of spying.
Privatus Analytics runs machine learning on every single visit. Our own model checks each one the moment it arrives, and labels it likely human, unsure or likely bot. It catches the sneaky bots pretending to be human, and it does it without fingerprinting anyone. Only the score is kept. Never their IP address, never a profile. There's nothing to set up, and nothing is deleted. You decide what to do with it. One click on Likely humans only, and every report shows real people. Your A/B tests too, so a bot never picks your winner. Want to catch even more? Add a honeypot, a hidden page only a bot would ever find. Every bot that walks in helps teach the model. Or ask Claude or ChatGPT, over MCP, how much of last month's traffic was real.
Now you know how many of your visitors are real people. Your conversion rate is one you can believe. And you got there without spying on anyone.
Find out who's really visiting your site. Start free at privatusanalytics.com.
Privacy by design
No cookies, no fingerprinting, no profiles. IP addresses are used in memory and never stored.
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Business
From $49 a month
250k events a month
For agencies, larger teams and security requirements.
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