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I checked my AI referral traffic against Search Console. 98.3% of it was not real.

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I run a referral beacon on my own site. It records one thing per visit, the referrer host and the path, and it only fires after the browser has parsed the document and run an effect. That was meant to make it a count of people rather than a count of requests. Between 2026-08-31 and 2026-09-14 it re…

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  1. 2026-09-16 11:57 · DEV Community — AI
    I checked my AI referral traffic against Search Console. 98.3% of it was not real.

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