For a while I see excessive traffic in some of pages. Those pages usually has 3-4 hits/day but, now they get 30+ traffic from Google (Actually I don’t know if it is google, Matomo labels it as Google). These traffic has only page view, no click or interaction. Most comes US locations, and Windows 11, chrome 145 and resolution 800x600. There are other similar (except location) visits. Common IP’s : 156.243.0.0 / 71.197.0.0 (There are others also). Looks like a spider, but not sure. No problem for me, except inflated statistics. Do you have any idea? Just block IP sub? (though i dont want to block Google!)
Number of that “bad” IP’s are more than I expected. I’m adding what I excluded from Matomo. (you should add “*” after dots. Is there a “bad-list” for those? It’s very difficult to find one-by-one.
156.233..
45.206..
172.252..
172.121..
66.43..
207.66..
75.110..
38.66..
68.51..
172.58..
74.70..
68.7..
73.40..
47.201..
154.94..
71.65..
184.101..
142.190..
24.186..
156.243..
108.5..
73.199..
174.108..
173.77..
154.194..
70.130..
107.146..
154.198..
76.169..
100.11..
Hello @PairMem , welcome to the club. Matomo is in this case a Bot-Tracker, because Matomo is incompetent to filter that (undetectable) Bots. Matomo know this problem.
You can use the Plugin TrackSpamPrevention. But that is not really a solution. Ther is no really solution to date, or very complex.
In the most cases this (undetectable) Bots change the IP by every visit.
You can try a individual Black-List in your matomo settings.
Have you tried the Tracking Spam Detection feature? This will block headless browsers and cloud services which these IPs may come from.