Common sense HUMAN detection with FouAnalytics - on popular U.S. ecommerce site

Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics don't show you this. FouAnalytics shows you click charts like the ones below, from a popular ecommerce site in the U.S.

Why would you care what click patterns and mouse move patterns look like on your site? Well, we've talked about "common sense bot detection with FouAnalytics" before. That helps you understand why something was marked as "bot" (dark red) by FouAnalytics. The above example is "common sense human detection." There's a few things to notice in the charts above. 97% of the users with screen resolution of 1920x1080 moved the mouse. The dots are the first x,y coordinates of the move (we don't track the entire mouse move pattern to not add any compute load to the browser and bandwidth of sending the data back to the servers). Next notice the corresponding click events at 75% -- i.e. 75% of the users clicked something.

Humans have to move the mouse to something like a button, site nav, links, etc. before they can click it. So there should always be the same or more mouse movements than clicks. If we see a click without a mouse move, that's strange for a human to accomplish. Purists know there are exceptions to this, but I won't get into those weeds here. Finally, notice the locations of the clicks and how they are individual dots, but there are clusters. That top row of clicks corresponds very well to site navigation. Upper right side is the login button. It just makes sense.

For contrast, see the clicks arriving from PMax. 84% of the users were bots (dark red). And these bots faked clicks on the landing page too. Note the click patterns are not anything like the click patterns of humans navigating around an ecommerce site above. The larger red circles means repeated clicks on the exact same pixel on screen. Multiple humans can't do that. But the presence of a click is enough to trick PMax algorithms into thinking there was engagement on the site, and subsequently allocate more budget to those fake sites and apps eating up your budgets with fraud.

Human clicks in ads, measured with FouAnalytics in-ad

We can also see where humans clicked on ads, in this case a 320x50 ad unit. Continuing with our theme of using multiple data points to corroborate, you can see not only the clicks within the green rectangle (320x50), you also see the corresponding touch charts for the same screen resolutions below. A human has to touch the screen of their smartphone before they can click an ad on screen. This should make common sense.

Just so you have a contrasting example, see below. These are real clicks by humans. There's even touch events (bottom row below) that correspond to the click events (top row below). But these were clicks on the close button [x] that were hijacked and treated as clicks on the ads. When we saw this we immediately cut off that mobile app network from our buys.

If you want to use FouAnalytics to "see Fou yourself" -- your sites and your ads -- message me.

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