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A Practical Guide to Traffic Attribution

May 2026 · 6 min read

Knowing which source and campaign brings genuine, high-quality visitors is the foundation of smart spending. Attribution only works, though, if the traffic being attributed is real.

Server-side classification adds a layer underneath conventional attribution models: before a session is credited to a channel, it's first confirmed to be a person, not a script.

The result is a funnel that reflects reality — where every attributed conversion started with an actual visitor.