I am currently running a site and is using one of cpanel’s tools to track the number of visitors and so on. However, I do understand that the Internet is full of crawlers, bots and other automated “web page visitors”.
Are there any statistics as to how many percent of a website views are actually from a human being, rather than some automated programs?
See if your traffic reports break the numbers down by user agent type. Well behaved bots will identify themselves as such and can be filtered from the stats. Then you can look for the rest of the traffic that comes from regular browsers.
You can also look for things like some visitors grabbing all of the HTML they can find but never getting a single image or CSS file. That can help you find bots masquerading as humans, but it’s also how blind people and people on slow connections tend to view the web.
It’s important to keep in mind that the User Agent field in the request header can be anything the program wants to send, including not even being present.