How do you block unwanted referrers?

  • Resolved callaloo

    (@callaloo)


    4 years, 9 months ago

    Hi. I usually monitor my GA analytics data every day and block out suspicious referrers using a filter. How does your plugin block such referrers? Or is there an option to add them a list? Actually, this is the only feature perhaps that makes me use GA full time. One referral spam site would send nearly 20-30 visits a day to my site, hence the need to block these referrers using a filter.

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  • Plugin Author Danny van Kooten

    (@dvankooten)

    Hello @callaloo,

    There is currently no easy way to manually filter out referrer spam. Are you currently experiencing referrer spam using Koko Analytics?

    The plugin comes with a built-in community-maintained blocklist of domains that are known to use referrer spam and it automatically filters these domains so that they never show up in your referrers overview. Here’s the file and here is where you can contribute to it.

    Thread Starter callaloo

    (@callaloo)

    It could be. I installed this plugin for three days last week and on the last day (Monday) I woke up at 8 am with around 480 page views while GA showed below 100. I am not sure how this happened, or it could be due to bots, referral spam, etc.

    Plugin Support Lap

    (@lapzor)

    it can also be duo to a lot of people blocking the google tracking scripts, and duo to the date/time ranges being different on each system. And of course many other possible reasons. Generally I would trust Koko over GA (ok, I’m a little biased).

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