How to filter out bots?

  • hercusmonte

    (@hercusmonte)


    7 years, 4 months ago

    Hi plugin works great, but it also registers bots, so besides the natural traffic you can also see hits from google search bots and other search engines. Is there a way to filter out bots traffic?

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  • Plugin Author Nikel

    (@nikelschubert)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,

    you can filter out bot traffic within google analytics.
    Go to Admin > View > View Settings and check the checkbox for “Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders”

    If you have done this already please tell me. It might that GA does not recognize the bots and spiders through this plugin, as the data which ís sent at the moment is limited.

    If this is the case I will have a look how to fix it.

    Regards

    Thread Starter hercusmonte

    (@hercusmonte)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    Yes, I was aware of that option but unfortunately it doesn’t help

    Plugin Author Nikel

    (@nikelschubert)

    6 years, 12 months ago

    @hercusmonte Hi, i added now support for user agent and more in custom dimension. This should help to debug this issue, as i have trouble reproducing it.

    But i am on it.

    Plugin Author Nikel

    (@nikelschubert)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    @hercusmonte can you sent me some user agents of bots you expected to be filtered out? with the new functionality you can easily sent it as custom dimension an retrieve in your reports.

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