Title: Problem with robots
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Problem with robots

 *  Resolved [wordpress4all](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpress4all/)
 * (@wordpress4all)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-robots/)
 * Hi all,
    I know that it is possible to set up a number of visits after a visitor
   is recognized as a robot. But here’s the problem: Someone clicks through all 
   my blog posts. He creates easily 50 visits. Thats fine. But if someone hits the
   main page about 50 times it is probably a robot. Is it possible to recognize 
   a visitor as a robot when he hits the same page a certain number of times (not
   different pages)? Also the timing would be a good thing to recognize robots but
   as far as I understand, this tool doesn’t support it.
 * Thanks in advance!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * (@gregross)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-robots/#post-7184673)
 * We don’t track which pages a user visits so we can’t distinguish between a robot
   hitting the main page 50 times and a user hitting 50 different pages. However
   the vast majority of users won’t browse a lot of pages all at the same time for
   most sites so this should be an edge case. In those cases, if you’ve enabled 
   the hit count detection, you’ll lose that user as a robot for the day.
 * However having said that, most robots don’t hit a single page repeatedly (except
   the login page if they’re trying to brute force your site of course), so a robot
   will actually look much like a user browsing your site page by page.
 * As above, since we don’t track user page hits there’s no way to exclude them 
   based on timing.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-robots/#post-7184673)
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