Peter Knight Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 I've been reading up on Referral spam in Google Analytics and wondered what others were doing to counter it. It's such a new problem that Google themselves have so far failed to deal with it effectively leaving us web developers to figure out solutions. Some of the guys on the forums are using .htaccess tweaks to block the domains in question etc. What (if anything) are you doing? I saw a WordPress plugin which I think is a good idea. It pulls in a central repository of known referral spammers and blocks them. Might be a good idea for a PW Module? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Knight Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 Did some further reading. Google have confirmed they are working on a global solution. Launch TBD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernhard Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 the only one that also works on historical data and my recommendation: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/9739-google-analytics-referral-spam/?p=94480 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstevensjr Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 FYI, PIWIK's take on this: http://piwik.org/blog/2015/05/stopping-referrer-spam/ https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues/5099 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nico Knoll Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Here is PIWIK's blacklist: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist/master/spammers.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diogo Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Google is taking too long to fix this. I'm trying Yandex metrica with success for now https://metrica.yandex.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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