My website is Dutch but the last 7 days most visitors seem to be from the US. Isn’t that strange? I’m using the .bin file from MaxMind which was updates June 3rd.
Is there a way to verify this data? I can understand a few lost visitors stumbling on the website as the content is globally appealing, but 45%?
Check the IP in the MaxMind Demo here:
: https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-demo
In the most cases this Visitors are from “corporate” and Bots.
In this year it is very heavy with bot visits.
Yes @vespino, I am also seeing this:
Thousands of visits from bots are getting counted, since the bots cloak themselves as regular users, support JavaScript, rotating IP’s, etc. so they are not in the MaxMind database.
Some get caught by Matomo’s bot rules, but many slip by. You can usually tell they are bots by looking at the metrics they share, like resolution (used to be 800x600, now 1920x1080) and browser version (currently 146.0) and the countries (US, Pakistan, GB) and delete them with the Privacy > GDPR Tools. The problem is, some real visits may get included, and deleted …
April 2026 I suggested adding an “Exclude by metric”-option (Feature request: Exclude by metric) in the Tracking Spam Prevention plugin to block bots, but it has sadly not been prioritised by the Matomo team …
Thanks for you insights, I responded by saying ”I have installed the addon “TrackingSpamPrevention“ and see will see what it gives” but re-reading your reply again and more carefully I see that doesn’t do much. Think I will look into other options which simply prevent bots from getting to the website.