The AI Traffic in Your Analytics Is the Least Valuable Thing AI Sends You
nikvassev · x · 2026-09-26
Opening a thread on AI traffic value, nikvassev makes a contrarian claim: AI referral traffic in your analytics is the least valuable thing AI sends you. He follows up: ChatGPT citations convert under 2% while driving 75% of AI referrals, and the paying conversions happen inside the answer, surfacing only as unattributable 'direct' traffic.
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