# Controlling a huge spike in "Other traffic"

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-a-huge-spike-in-other-traffic/387434
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** hosted-support
**Created:** [3 november 2025 om 09:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-a-huge-spike-in-other-traffic/387434 "2025-11-03T09:35:42Z")
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### Author: ![MarkDoerr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/markdoerr/32/549630_2.png) [@MarkDoerr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MarkDoerr)
#### Post date: [12 november 2025 om 21:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-a-huge-spike-in-other-traffic/387434/7 "2025-11-12T21:59:05Z")

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Hi @julianstirling,

> [@julianstirling](#):
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> 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:

> [@How to deal with sudden high “Other traffic” in site analytics?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-deal-with-sudden-high-other-traffic-in-site-analytics/379790/2):
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> “Other traffic” are likely bots or crawlers, some more detail here [Understanding pageviews and the site traffic report](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-pageviews-and-the-site-traffic-report/324062/)

And to answer this question:

> [@julianstirling](#):
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> 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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-web-crawlers-for-a-site/244925) . 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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-investigate-bot-traffic-using-google-analytics/387586) . If you use that, any feedback you have will be greatly appreciated.

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