AI conversions showing up as zero in real analytics data I've been knee-deep in analytics for enterprise sites and mid-sized e-comm stores for the last eight years, pulling GA4 reports, server logs, and UTM-tagged referral data every single month. Lately this sub and the whole industry keeps hyping "AI search optimization" and how ChatGPT or Perplexity will become the next massive traffic and conversion channel. But when I actually look at the numbers across 31 different properties I track, the data is crystal clear: AI is delivering basically nothing. We ran full-year 2025-2026 tracking on every major AI tool and the combined referrals never cracked 0.8% of total sessions on any site. On a large SaaS dashboard with 850k monthly users, AI sources topped out at 2,400 sessions in the busiest month and zero of those turned into paid trials.…