Matomo is not prohibiting many Bots from being tracked

A lot of Bots are accessing my Website, which are still counted in the visitor log. This is screwing up all kinds metrics like visitor numbers, etc.
Here are some of the user Agents
""Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DotBot/1.1; http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/dotbot, help@moz.com)"

"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +https://www.contentkingapp.com/)"

What can I do to prevent this?
Also the exclusion of User Agent in the admin interface when placing “Googlebot” in there seems to do nothing at atll.
I also have problems with crawlers that send no User Agent at all. All that is found in the user agent is two hyphens.

Hi,

Both of your user agents are detected by device-detector (the device detector of Matomo; testable here).

What kind of tracking do you use (JS/PHP/Log Analytics)?

You can find more information about blocking bots without User Agents here on the forum:

I am using PHP tracking. How is it possible that my tracking server doesn’t recognize the tow Bots?
Do I need to setup the device detector within my website’s code as well?

@Lukas I just found out the weirdest thing.
When I try the User Agent Strings at http://devicedetector.net/index.php The Bots are recognized, but not when I enter the same bot into my Matomo Admin page even though I use version 3.3.0 of Matomo

Hi @Minalcar
If you can reproduce this issue in the latest Matomo, please create a bug report at http://www.github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues

We’ll investigate then. Thanks,