Judging AI search traffic by the first cart undervalues it badly: buyers who arrive pre-convinced by an assistant behave differently for years. Here is the cohort model that takes AI-referral measurement from immediate cart out to 5-year lifetime value.
Direct is your fastest-growing channel and you conclude nothing is working. Meanwhile ChatGPT is quietly sending your best-converting traffic of the quarter. Here is how to build the chain of custody.
AI traffic from ChatGPT and Perplexity is already arriving, but GA4 buries it. Here is where AI referrals show up, how to build a segment, and the blind spots you cannot close.