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A lightweight script to detect AI traffic
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AI Referral Detector – See which AI sent traffic to your site
by grandlaps·Mar 3, 2026·2 points·1 comment
AI Analysis
●MidSolve My ProblemDark Horse
Spots AI referrals when Google Analytics shows 'Direct'—but referrer-based detection is trivial to spoof.
Strengths
- •Addresses a real gap: no existing analytics tool isolates AI traffic from mislabeled 'Direct' visits
- •Covers 8+ AI sources (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, DeepSeek, Grok) with structured event payloads
- •Zero dependencies, no cookies—low-friction drop-in script with optional self-hosted backend
Weaknesses
- •Purely referrer-based: easily spoofed by redirects, proxy chains, or copy-paste URLs from AI sessions
- •No IP-based validation or behavioral clustering—high false-positives if someone bookmarks an AI link
- •Google Analytics 4 already has custom event tracking; this solves a 2–3 line implementation problem
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Target Audience
E-commerce and SaaS founders who want to measure and optimize for AI-driven traffic
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Google Analytics 4 · Amplitude · Mixpanel
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