Last month the site recorded 28,902 total accesses, of which a modest 5,021 were classified as human and a commanding 23,881 were bots or crawlers. In other words, our digital visitors were overwhelmingly non-human, with Bingbot alone accounting for nearly ten thousand page views and a generic crawler close behind.

Among the supposed human traffic, only 31 accesses came from logged-in users, and every single one of those belonged to the developer account used for quality control. That leaves exactly zero registered, non-developer humans who bothered to log in. The remaining human-like traffic was entirely anonymous, which is either a sign of shy readership or simply more bots wearing a convincing disguise.

Bots and crawlers made up roughly 83 percent of all traffic, with Bingbot, a generic crawler, ClaudeBot, MJ12bot, and DotBot forming a loyal mechanical fan club. ClaudeBot’s 4,271 visits suggest that at least one AI is deeply interested in our content, presumably to summarize it for humans who will never visit the site themselves.

We treat all access from outside Switzerland as dubious, and since only 136 accesses came from Swiss IP addresses, the vast majority of our so-called human traffic is suspect. Brazil, the United States, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam top the list of foreign visitors, but given the bot-heavy environment, many of those are likely automated scripts with good travel agents.

The most successful pages, both overall and among probable humans, remain those that crawlers find easiest to index and that anonymous visitors stumble upon by accident. No single page has emerged as a breakout hit among actual readers, though the bots seem to enjoy everything equally.

In short, the site is very popular among bots and the main developer, but there is still room for improvement for actual human readers. After all, most humans search for their answers with AI anyway, so having a bot-and-crawler fan club might, in the long term, be more important for the site than loyal human readers. Still, we hope to attract human readers interested in data-driven stories to gather ideas for their own human-written stories.