Anonymous views suddenly very high

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In terms of Cloudfalre mitigation what is working for me:

Bots

  • Bot fight mode - ON
  • Block AI bots - ON

WAF Rules 1)

ASN - JS challenge Applied / ASN = 136907

(locations in order of most traffic)

  1. Singapore
  2. Hong Kong
  3. Mexico

Anyone such as @piffy check to see if the same ASN is hitting you too. This looked like real traffic in google analytics, it smashed the bounce rate up to over 80% and user engamenet collapsed. It will mess up your adsence RPM / CPC to afaict.

WAF Rule 2)

Geo JS challenge Applied (in order of most traffic)

  1. Singapore
  2. Hong Kong
  3. Mexico

There seemed to be a new uptick in Cloudflare servings and again the same geo-regions are top so now I have applied a Geo JS Challenge to these top 3 offenders.

An intervention for the main purposes of restoring analytics / user engagement metric health, this traffic is not putting pressure on the server anymore since CF handles so much via caching and managing bot attacks, but overall the metrics are being really screwed up. This is belligerent traffic.

I will update if I see improvement in analytics metrics / adsense etc.

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