Last month the site recorded a total of 27,516 accesses. Of these, 22,596 were from bots or crawlers, while 4,920 were classified as possible human access. That means roughly 82 percent of all traffic came from non-human visitors, leaving a modest but not entirely invisible human audience.

Among the human accesses, not a single one came from a logged-in user. The developer account, which normally shows up for quality control work, was completely absent from the logs. This suggests that even the person building the site took a break from looking at it, which is either a sign of confidence or quiet despair. Either way, the site operated for a month without any registered human user bothering to log in.

The bot fan club was led by Bingbot with 9,758 visits, followed by a generic crawler with 7,077, ClaudeBot with 3,560, PerplexityBot with 950, and MJ12bot with 671. These five accounted for nearly all automated traffic. It is reassuring to know that if the site ever needs a testimonial, it can count on a search engine, an unnamed scraper, and three AI assistants to say nice things about it.

The dubious access picture is sobering. Only 53 accesses came from Switzerland, the site’s home country. Everything else arrived from abroad, which by our own logic means almost all traffic is suspect. The top countries for possible human access were the United States with 1,964 hits, Singapore with 764, Brazil with 313, Taiwan with 297, and Lithuania with 200. None of these are known hotbeds of Swiss data journalism, so we remain cautious about calling them loyal readers.

The most successful pages, in terms of raw access, were naturally the ones the bots liked best. Since bots do not leave comments or subscribe to newsletters, we cannot say which stories resonated with actual humans. The probable human users, if they exist, did not log in, did not come from Switzerland, and did not leave enough of a trace to identify their favourite content. This makes it hard to celebrate any particular article.

In summary, 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; therefore, having a bot-and-crawler fan club might, in the long term, be more important for the site than loyal human readers. We still hope to attract human readers that are interested in data-driven stories to gather ideas for their own human-written stories.