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by kenniskrag 1519 days ago
Not a business. It helps to filter out crawler and bots. It tells me which content is interesting enough to read and worth updating (my personal wiki)
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Are crawler access patterns really that non-uniform across pages and large enough to make this a problem? And for crawlers that are not immediately indentifiable from the user agent? Are you sure you are not just counting users without JS / a blocker that interferes with your tracking / intermittent connections as bots?

If you really care what users like on your site why not ask them?