Add LLM as a default channel?

Hello,

I’m getting more and more requests from customers who would like to distinguish LLM traffic in the default ‘Channels’ report.

I have tried using the ‘Custom Channel Grouping’ feature, but unfortunately it is not possible to set the default value on existing channels:

I’ve rebuilt the default channels this way, but it’s not ideal:

Could you please consider adding this source to the default channels? AI traffic is set to rise, so this seems relevant to me.

We’ll also use a dedicated segment in the meantime.

Thanks! :slight_smile:

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Hello @Thomas_Anode_FR

Thank you for your feedback, we had similar ideas for LLMs channels before. I will pass it to our development teams.

As for default channels grouping - we are not planning to change it for now, we might upgrade the way how custom channels are created.

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Hello @jfidala
Is there any news on this topic yet? Currently it would be very desirable to be able to display the LLM sources separately.

Hello @Eric_Wolfe and welcome to our community.

We don’t have any updates on this topic yet - but as far as it goes right now you should be able to see traffic for visitors that clicked from LLMs websites. As alternative option you could create segment with LLM traffic sources manually to preview it in reports quickly.

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On the same topic, is there a way to distinguish traffic from AI-content in search engines?

@martho I don’t think there is and easy way to do that. Most of the LLMs and search browsers don’t tag that traffic in any different way than normal referrals, or even worse - some LLMs can tag multiple links in one answer with different UTMs (or none).

You could try to pickup some parameters related to AI for some stuff like AI overviews in URL but it’s not good way to do it, as they aren’t made for tagging traffic.

@Thomas_Anode_FR We’ve introduced the ability to use custom channels as the default so that it’s the primary set of channels in standard reports. It may help a bit while adding some channels like LLMs on top of our standard ones.

We also plan to add AI referral channel that will contain human traffic incoming from AI tools. Watch our changelog for updates.

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