---
slug: bots
title: "Are bots filtered out?"
category: datenqualitaet
locale: en
updated: 2026-10-15
keywords: ["bot","crawler","user agent","invalid traffic","IVT"]
questions: ["Do automated requests distort my numbers?","Bot traffic","Exclude crawlers","Invalid traffic"]
url: https://bench.metrunio.com/en/help/bots
---

# Are bots filtered out?

**Do automated requests distort my numbers?**

Obvious bots are detected through a user-agent heuristic and excluded. That is not full bot management.

What is detected are requests that identify themselves as bots: search engine crawlers, monitoring services, known tools. Anything presenting itself as an ordinary browser is not reliably detected.

> **Note:** Metrunio shows no separate finding for conspicuous patterns, such as very many impressions with no viewability at all. Detected bots appear as a browser family of their own in the post-view coverage under “Channels & attribution”, and a conversion whose touchpoints all come from bots stays “unattributed” with that reason.

## Also asked

- Bot traffic
- Exclude crawlers
- Invalid traffic

## Related

- https://bench.metrunio.com/en/help/health-center
- https://bench.metrunio.com/en/help/messgrenzen