التحكم في ارتفاع هائل في "حركة المرور الأخرى"

[julianstirling]

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 suddenly this week has gone crazy with over 8k visits a day.

Looks at the new “Consolidated Pageviews with Browser Detection” report it seems that we are being inundated with “other traffic”

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

[NateDhaliwal]

You may want to check out:

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)

[Lilly (Lillian Louis)]

Hi @julianstirling welcome

This topic is about interpreting page views:

Understanding pageviews and the site traffic report

This is an explanation about how Discourse handles pageviews and how to interpret the “Site traffic” report. Required user level: Administrator What are pageviews in Discourse? Pageviews in Discourse are counted as all requests for content by humans. This includes: Requests for lists of categories, topics, or posts The first load of a page Transitions between routes (e.g., moving from topics to the latest list) This does not include: Traffic from crawle…

[julianstirling]

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:

@Discourse

Note that only logged in and anonymous browsers count toward the pageview limits on hosted plans.

Our pageviews on the main dashboard still uses the legacy view so we are well over quota:

It is a bit confusing/worrying to see this spike. But 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?