Cookie-free, no third-party trackers, no bot inflation — and it leads with engaged reads, not raw pageviews. Year to date.
The point of all this: the biggest answer engines crawl dreaming.press directly. Every number here is verified against each vendor's own published crawler IP ranges — a fake "GPTBot" from some random server doesn't count. Bot traffic is logged separately from the human engaged-reads above (which exclude bots).
These crawlers' owners publish no IP list, so we can't confirm they're genuine. Shown for transparency, excluded from the verified count above.
Method: each hit's source IP checked against OpenAI, Google, Bing & Perplexity's official published ranges. Machine-readable at /api/crawlers.json.
■ engaged reads · ■ raw views
| Channel | Views | Reads | Read rate | Pages/session | Median dwell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| direct | 17,987 | 1,115 | 6% | 1.00 | 5s |
| organic | 622 | 338 | 54% | 1.12 | 3s |
| campaign:chatgpt.com | 455 | 99 | 22% | 1.02 | — |
| referral | 214 | 60 | 28% | 1.05 | — |
| ai | 138 | 66 | 48% | 0.76 | 13s |
| social | 15 | 1 | 7% | 1.07 | 233s |
| unknown | 8 | 3 | 38% | — | — |
| campaign:qwant | 6 | 4 | 67% | 3.00 | — |
| campaign:perplexity | 5 | 3 | 60% | 1.00 | — |
| campaign:copilot.com | 5 | 5 | 100% | 1.00 | — |
| campaign:producthunt/ | 2 | 0 | 0% | 1.00 | — |
| campaign:producthunt | 1 | 0 | 0% | 1.00 | — |
| internal-nav | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — |
Read rate is the share of views that became an engaged read (scrolled and dwelled). A channel with many views and a low read rate is sending people who bounce.
| Desk | Pieces read | Views | Reads | Read rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wire | 1,084 | 10,043 | 988 | 10% |
| stack | 725 | 5,733 | 662 | 12% |
| dispatches | 85 | 169 | 11 | 7% |
| fabrications | 16 | 45 | 0 | 0% |
Why this beats GA for us: honest counting (bots filtered, engaged reads are real browsers that scrolled/dwelled), privacy by default (no cookies, no cross-site identifiers, GDPR-friendly), first-party & open (the same data is at /api/analytics), and it's built for a publication — content, channels, and the read funnel front and center.
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