Bot detection service Distil Networks announced this week that it has purchased human detection service Are You a Human.
And the San Francisco-based Distil has now launched a free bot detection plug-in for Google Analytics, called Distil Bot Discovery, based in part on Human’s acquired tech. Deal terms were not made public.
The companies said that the new plug-in is the first of its kind for Google Analytics. Distil CEO and co-founder Raid Essaid told me that Analytics’ current bot detection is “terrible,” since it relies on the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s slow-moving list of bots and spiders. Distil estimates that Google’s bot filtering catches less than 1 percent of bot traffic on most sites.
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