I analyzed 200 e-commerce sites and found 73% of their traffic is fake

Re:I analyzed 200 e-commerce sites and found 73% of their tr... by dpoloncsak on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:08PM (#45595599)

I work in e-commerce and completely believe this could be true. The 'Cart Abandonment Bot' is actually something we just had a meeting on today, trying to figure out what's going on here.

With that said, what do you think the error is here? Could your script have had some false positives? Enough to move the dial?

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Re:I analyzed 200 e-commerce sites and found 73% of their tr... by bombcar on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:37PM (#45595974)

Some sites won't give you the price or the shipping until you add to cart, but that shouldn't map to an automatic removal of item from cart (unless there IS a timer somewhere set to 4 minutes on the server side).

Strange that the item cost $47 and the number of sales was 47.

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Re:I analyzed 200 e-commerce sites and found 73% of their tr... by dwd on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:24PM (#45600464)

I would also be looking for card washing and see if they attempted to purchase and the card failed.

Repeated purchase attempts, particularly on the cheapest product in the catalogue is a bad sign.

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