Controlling a huge spike in "Other traffic"

[NateDhaliwal]

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How to deal with sudden high “Other traffic” in site analytics?

Hi everyone, I recently noticed a huge spike in “Other traffic” on my forum’s community health page (Discourse admin dashboard → Reports → Community health). [IMG_3913] Here are the details: • Period: Around early August 2025 • Daily traffic: jumped to 100k+ “Other traffic” per day • Example: On Aug 16, 2025 • Logged-in pageviews: 12,531 • Anonymous pageviews: 2,753 • Known crawlers: 6,865 • Other traffic: 102,054 (majority of my total 124k) [IMG_3912] This “Other traffic” seems ab…

There’s some good suggestions there.

You may also want to see this report:

Dashboard Report - Site Traffic

This is an SQL version of the Dashboard Report for Site Traffic. This report provides an overview of site traffic metrics grouped by date. It breaks down page views into several categories, including logged-in browser views, anonymous browser views, crawler views, and other calculated traffic types. See: Understanding pageview tracking on hosted plans, for additional details about this report. -- [params] -- date :start_date = 2025-01-01 -- date :end_date = 2025-02-01 WITH first_browser_page…

(But that’s using the Data Explorer plugin, which I’m not sure you have)