Mostly US visitors?

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Yes @vespino, I am also seeing this:

Bot visits are getting counted

Problem It seems like some bots have managed to disguise themselves as regular users and get counted by Matomo, because the number of daily visits have risen 15-fold, mainly from bot-looking visits. Tasks How can we make sure bots are not getting counted? See comment #2 below How can we delete these false visits? See comment #3 below Observations Some observations which seems to confirm that these are bots: The majority report using a 800x600 screen Some stats, which seem to confirm th…

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 …