Controlling a huge spike in "Other traffic"

[MarkDoerr]

Hi @julianstirling,

@julianstirling

Is there a report should go to to get more detailed information? Is strategy for controlling this?

There’s no report for gathering more detailed information around the pageviews. Nate linked to a topic that helps describe what ‘Other traffic’ typically is:

@awesomerobot

“Other traffic” are likely bots or crawlers, some more detail here Understanding pageviews and the site traffic report

And to answer this question:

@julianstirling

the way I am reading this is that to actually see the underlying logs of what IPs are in the other traffic we would need a plugin?

We don’t provide IP addresses in any report. As a hosted customer, we would need to pull your web server logs. And even then, I’d ask if you truly need those?

If you’re concerned about page view limits, I would suggest you write in to our support group as Tobias mentioned.

If you’re trying to mitigate some of those requests, I would look at Controlling Web Crawlers For a Site . As noted there, badly behaved bots or crawlers which spoof Google or Bing bots won’t be slowed by that.

And finally, if you use Google Analytics, we published a new guide a little over a week ago on How to investigate bot traffic using Google Analytics . If you use that, any feedback you have will be greatly appreciated.