Plugin stops tracking search engine hits

I opened a new issue on github. this has been an issue for a while now and not getting any love. This is an exceptional plugin from some exceptionally talented programmers. TY!
https://github.com/wp-statistics/wp-statistics/issues/235

I had the same issue. Not giving up playing with my firewall an the settings of this plugin, I removed some bots from the robot-list under menu ‘exceptions’. “Et voilá” … search engine hits came back to my display in stats … The bots I removed are called googlebot, bingbot and so on. Just the search engines you need/have aktivated to display. Don’t forget to disable the update of this list.

good luck!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by st3phan76.

still no search hits recorded. my ticket on github was closed with the comment below. I am also using WassUP and seeing the search hits

“Search Engine Referrals and Words are highly dependent on the search engines providing the information to us. Unfortunately, we can’t do anything about it; we report everything we receive.”

from WassUp
2019-04-25 14:13:47
Referrer: https://www.google.com/
Hostname: 2600:1017:b126:a144:0:48:1638:101
SEARCH ENGINE: Google (page: 1)KEYWORDS: (not provided)
us OS: Android 6 BROWSER: Chrome 73 Mobile

I see what is happening. the hit is being recorded as a visitor and not as referred from search. Also in the DB the referred column is being populated with the local site URL that I suspect is perhaps from a stale variable or other. the search table has zero entries. hope this helps