# Pageviews from Anonymous Users have exploded but Google Analytics showed no traffic growth. How to find about where the increase come from?

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**Author:** ![neounix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neounix/32/215617_2.png) [@neounix](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neounix)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 7:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pageviews-from-anonymous-users-have-exploded-but-google-analytics-showed-no-traffic-growth-how-to-find-about-where-the-increase-come-from/173892/2 "2020-12-21T07:26:34Z")

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> [@zhenniwu](#):
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> I love seeing the growth

Hi @zhenniwu

This is not “growth”. Your site was more-than-likely visited by a rouge-bot who does not follow any robots.txt rule and is already flagged by Google as a “rouge bot” and so their traffic is filtered from their stats.

There is little-to-nothing you can do about this unless you are willing to invest a lot of time and energy into bot-detection and blocking, which is mostly a waste of time (for most people).

This is just “life on the net as we know it” and nothing to even pay any attention too, for the most part.

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