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 | 12,371 | 816 | 7% | 1.00 | 5s |
| organic | 291 | 121 | 42% | 1.05 | 4s |
| referral | 126 | 44 | 35% | 1.05 | — |
| campaign:chatgpt.com | 101 | 28 | 28% | 1.04 | — |
| ai | 86 | 45 | 52% | 0.89 | 10s |
| social | 9 | 0 | 0% | 1.13 | 233s |
| unknown | 8 | 3 | 38% | — | — |
| campaign:perplexity | 4 | 3 | 75% | 1.00 | — |
| campaign:copilot.com | 4 | 4 | 100% | 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 | 1,058 | 7,625 | 669 | 9% |
| stack | 703 | 3,508 | 368 | 10% |
| dispatches | 82 | 147 | 9 | 6% |
| fabrications | 14 | 30 | 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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