Peter Knight Posted July 29, 2015 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?
Peter Knight Posted July 29, 2015 Author Posted July 29, 2015 Did some further reading. Google have confirmed they are working on a global solution. Launch TBD
bernhard Posted July 29, 2015 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
cstevensjr Posted July 31, 2015 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
Nico Knoll Posted August 7, 2015 Posted August 7, 2015 Here is PIWIK's blacklist: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist/master/spammers.txt
diogo Posted August 7, 2015 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/
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