A user enabled an AI bot in their channel chat and noticed a significant increase in “Anonymous users” pageviews. fbpbdmin wondered if this was related to the AI bot’s activity. However, sam clarified that chat is not enabled for anonymous users and suggested looking into web logs or Google Analytics for a better understanding. Firepup650 interpreted the question as whether the AI bot itself, when used in chat by users, causes anonymous pageviews. sam confirmed that the AI bot does not cause page views, as it accesses the database directly via the backend. This was further confirmed by fbpbdmin after checking with another bot.
Chat is not even enabled for anonymous, see:
So whatever traffic this new traffic is, it is not really possible it is coming from chat.
You are going to have to look through web logs (or configure something like google analytics) to get a good understanding on what is going on at the micro level.
Thanks Sam, that might be a coincidence, we turned on ai bot chat today. While, still , dont think that could be that many guest pageviews today…
Thanks will dig into it
I believe that’s not what they had meant, I think they were more asking if the AI bot itself (when used in chat by users) was causing anonymous pageviews.
Yes, thanks Firepup, i was wondering that, maybe when the ai bot retrieves messages in channel chat, that counts? Seems not, assuming it is done via the api … hmm
Yeah it will not cause page views, the tools access the database directly via the backend
thanks, @Sam, got it, confirmed that too… from some bot, which is not identified as crawler
