incrediBILL - 2:39 am on Jul 16, 2008 (gmt 0)

Trying to discern humans from bots has been a problem from the start of web analytics

Not the bots that play by the rules and properly identify themselves like the major search engines.

Humans used to be the be the dominant species on the web opposed to a few meandering bots but that has completely changed to some small web sites being dominated by more bots than humans.

It's the proliferation of bots that hide under the radar, an ever increasing escalating trend even among the corporate variety, that's quite troublesome.

Week after week the posts keep coming of new webmasters wondering why their stats claim they have all these visitors yet they have no sales, affiliate or adsense revenue.

Someone has to break the bad news to them that those aren't humans on their site.