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No. Recognized bots are counted separately by default: they go to the Bots report and stay out of visitors, sessions, pageviews and every human report. They also do not use your monthly event quota.
Counted separately by default
New sites start in recognize and count separately mode. A request recognized as a bot goes to the Bots report and is left out of visitors, sessions, pageviews and every human report. It does not consume your monthly event quota, so a crawl spike cannot use up your plan.
The number to report is the Humans view — it is the default. Bots are kept in their own report rather than deleted, so you can still see crawl volume when you need it.
The three modes
Change the mode under Web analyticsConfigurationBots:
- Recognize and count separately. The default. Bots go to their own report and stay out of human numbers.
- Drop. Bot hits are discarded entirely and do not appear anywhere.
- Do not recognize. Bots are mixed into human numbers. Kept only for comparison with older tools; not recommended.
Switch between humans and all traffic
Every analytics report has a toggle at the top that switches between Humans and All traffic. Humans is the default and the number to share; All traffic is for debugging crawl volume. If your count looks lower than an older tool, this is usually why — see why your count differs from GA4.
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