How to ignore Baidu fake traffic?

zalvik · August 16, 2021, 11:53am

Hi, i have many of baidu fake traffic logs in Matomo on all my sites how to block or ignore this?

heurteph-ei · August 16, 2021, 12:26pm

Are you sure it is a bot, as Baidu is also a web browser:

Baidu Browser - Wikipedia
To download Baidu browser: Baidu Browser- Téléchargement de l’application Android-Baidu Mobile Assistant

Also, which version of Matomo do you use?

zalvik · August 16, 2021, 12:29pm

Matomo: 4.4.1
i check server logs and it looks like Browser, but its fake for sure and i need to block or ignore this traffic in Matomo stats:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 8.1.0; zh-CN; EML-AL00 Build/HUAWEIEML-AL00) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/57.0.2987.108 baidu.sogo.uc.UCBrowser/11.9.4.974 UWS/2.13.1.48 Mobile Safari/537.36 AliApp(DingTalk/4.5.11) com.alibaba.android.rimet/10487439 Channel/227200 language/zh-CN

heurteph-ei · August 16, 2021, 12:32pm

Have a look at: How do I exclude all requests with a specific User Agent from statistics ? FAQ - Analytics Platform - Matomo

Lukas · August 16, 2021, 12:47pm

Hi,

There is also a new Matomo plugin that might help:

zalvik · August 16, 2021, 3:03pm

thank you, i’ll check this

Kevin_David_K · August 17, 2021, 10:53am

If you have access to your raw server logs, could you post some examples of what these requests look like?