Hello. Thank you, for Discourse it is wonderful We have a forum kindly provided on the Dicsourse hosting for open source projects. It has been fantastic for our community. We have plodded along with 20-40k views a month for a few years now (barring the time we needed to rate limit BingBot), then s…

Hi @julianstirling , [image] 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’ typic…

You may want to check out: [image] How to deal with sudden high “Other traffic” in site analytics? Support Hi everyone, I recently noticed a huge spike in “Other traffic” on my forum’s community health page (Discourse admin dashboard → Reports → Community…

Hi @julianstirling :wave: welcome :slight_smile: This topic is about interpreting page views: [image] Understanding pageviews and the site traffic report Site Management bookmark This is an explanation about how Discourse handles pageviews and how to interpre…

Thanks @NateDhaliwal and @Lilly ! I think on the hosted option I don’t have access to Data explorer plugin or all of the IPs. We can’t geoblock as we are a very international community. It is good to hear that: [image] Understanding pageviews and the site traffic report :information_source: No…

Hi Julian! Apologies for the delay in responding here. As a hosted customer you can always reach out to team@discourse.org to get quick, personalized support from our team. We can also look at your site’s stats and settings directly to advise you. That bump in pageviews does look impressive, and yo…

Thanks @MarkDoerr and @tobiaseigen It seems to be starting to calm down, though considerably higher than before. Hopefully the trend will continue. We have tried crawler slowdown when we were being spammed by Bing, but there is no indentifieable user agents for the new traffic. Also as a very inte…

Controlling a huge spike in "Other traffic"

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Hi @julianstirling welcome

This topic is about interpreting page views:

Topic		Replies	Views
How to deal with sudden high “Other traffic” in site analytics? Support	7	357	August 28, 2025
Understanding pageviews and the site traffic report Site Management explanation , dashboard-reports	1	1403	May 5, 2026
Better pageview metrics with the new site traffic report Announcements dashboard-reports	18	1293	November 7, 2025
Understanding pageview tracking on hosted plans Hosted Customers explanation , dashboard-reports	0	515	September 10, 2024
Traffic Dashboard Stats Feature feedback	30	9126	May 16, 2016

Controlling a huge spike in "Other traffic"

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