I agree it’s probably super inaccurate. There’s no other way to gauge lurkers really though unless we want to start doing less privacy oriented things.

The user numbers are what I would pay attention to.

there were definitely crawlers this month, and a big spike in (real) visitors on the day we hit the top of hacker news.

but removing those two from the metrics would have still resulted in a big all-time high in unique visitors… likely in the 33-38k range.