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The AI Attribution Gap: Why Your Analytics Miss 40%+ of Traffic

Most analytics platforms can not track AI-referred traffic. Here is what is missing and how to fix it.

Christian Lehman
Christian LehmanFeb 2, 2026

The answer to this question now lives on AuthorityTech's AI traffic attribution guide: How to Track ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini Traffic in GA4. It covers what GA4 records, what it misses, and how to check each platform in your own property.

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