agentic traffic
Requests from agentic browsers, Comet, Atlas and their successors, in which a model drives a real browser session on a person's behalf. They arrive with an ordinary browser user-agent, cookies, and human-looking session patterns, from consumer addresses.
What agentic traffic means
No user-agent match, operator feed or reverse-DNS check can classify them, so they are invisible to every verification method in this glossary.
What agentic traffic does not show
This is a definable limit rather than a solved problem: a verified count is a count of what identified itself, and this traffic does not.
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Questions about agentic traffic
What is agentic traffic?
Requests from agentic browsers, Comet, Atlas and their successors, in which a model drives a real browser session on a person's behalf. They arrive with an ordinary browser user-agent, cookies, and human-looking session patterns, from consumer addresses.
What does agentic traffic not show or guarantee?
This is a definable limit rather than a solved problem: a verified count is a count of what identified itself, and this traffic does not.
Which area of the glossary does agentic traffic belong to?
Crawlers and access: Who is fetching, whether they are who they claim, and what your rules actually permit.
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