Traffic Transparency
Why transparency matters here
We apply the same standard to our own traffic data that we apply to government data: verified, disclosed, and accountable. These are the numbers driving interest in this site's core subject.
Registered
89,799Children registered
Total in the Ontario Autism Program queue
MCCSS FOI · Mar 2026
Funded
20,633Have active funding
Only 23% of registered children
MCCSS FOI · Mar 2026
Waiting
69,166Still waiting
Registered. Diagnosed. Un-funded.
MCCSS FOI · Mar 2026
Verified , MCCSS FOI · Mar 2026
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Children registered | 89,799 |
| Have active funding | 20,633 |
| Still waiting | 69,166 |
In a typical 24-hour period, a significant percentage of raw HTTP requests to this site originate from cloud infrastructure addresses around the world, including providers based in China, the United States, and Europe. This is consistent with global web traffic patterns, research from Imperva, Cloudflare, and Akamai consistently shows that 30–50% of all web traffic worldwide is automated bot traffic.
It originates from commercial cloud data centers, not personal computers
Automated browsers generate these requests, there is no human operator
Sessions show no meaningful engagement, no scrolling, no reading, no interaction
No form submissions, no contact attempts, no advocacy tool usage
These are web crawlers indexing public content, not intelligence collection
We use standard web analytics techniques to distinguish genuine human visitors from automated tools. Signals include session duration, engagement patterns, and browser identification. When we report visitor statistics, we exclude automated traffic. Our published numbers reflect verified human sessions.
The vast majority of our genuine human traffic comes from:
We also observe traffic from institutional networks, including academic institutions, public health organizations, and government networks. This is expected, our content is relevant to policy researchers, healthcare planners, and public servants working in the autism services space.
We do not collect personally identifiable information from visitors
We do not use tracking cookies for advertising
We do not sell or share visitor data with any third party
We do not identify individual government employees who access the site
Our analytics are first-party only, no third-party advertising trackers
On March 16, 2026, Ontario Premier Doug Ford referenced foreign threats as justification for proposed changes to Ontario’s Freedom of Information laws (Bill 97). Government ministers referenced “foreign countries” taking advantage of Ontario’s “openness through predatory information gathering.”
The automated traffic this site receives from global cloud infrastructure is standard web crawling that every public website on the internet experiences. It is not intelligence gathering, it is not information warfare, and it is not evidence of foreign influence. The Ontario government’s own website, the Legislative Assembly’s website, and every other .ca domain receives identical traffic.
We publish this disclosure proactively because transparency should not be something advocates demand only from governments, it should be something we practice ourselves.
Verified Facts
89,799, children are registered in the Ontario Autism Program
23%, Only 20,633 children have active funding agreements — less than one in four
According to the FAO (2020 report), OAP funding covers less than one-third of estimated need at 2018-19 service levels
$965M, Ontario allocated to the Ontario Autism Program in 2026-27
WHO recommends accessible, community-based early interventions for children with autism — timely evidence-based psychosocial interventions improve communication and social engagement