GlossaryFloor
What is floor?
A floor is a count reported as "at least this many": the number that could be measured, with the acknowledgement that the true number may be higher. agenttraffic labels a count as a floor whenever it could be undercounted by hiding, spoofing or caching.
Also called: floor count, minimum count.
Logs are exact about requests and vague about everything a request stands for. A crawler that does not announce itself is not counted. A spoofed request is set aside, so the verified count is lower than the real visits if a genuine request came from an address the operator has not published yet. A cached page fetch may never reach the log at all.
Rather than pick a plausible total, the report says what it measured and labels the rest. Verified requests are a floor of real agent visits. Unfurls are a floor of shares. Distinct IP addresses are a floor of people, and are never called visitors.
The opposite mistake is just as common: a count that could be inflated. One question to an assistant can trigger several fetches, so live fetch counts are reported as fetch events rather than people who asked.
Related terms
- Live fetch: A live fetch is a request an AI assistant makes for a page right now, because a person in a conversation asked something the assistant needs that page to answer.
- Link unfurler: A link unfurler is the fetcher a chat app or social platform sends to build a preview when someone pastes a link.
- Spoofed user agent: A spoofed user agent is a request that claims to be a known bot, such as Googlebot or ChatGPT-User, but comes from an IP address outside the ranges that bot’s operator publishes.
Published 2026-09-21, updated 2026-09-21.