Seeing anonymous user and crawler traffic, even though site is private

There shouldn’t be anything additional you need to do… that crawler traffic is likely from crawlers hitting community.yoursite.com/login. If you check community.example.com/admin/reports/web_crawlers you can see how often specific crawlers are hitting your site.

There are a couple things you can do to reduce the crawler traffic…

  • Try disallowing /login from crawlers within robots.txt (community.example.com/admin/customize/robots)… you’d probably see some crawler traffic drop (though probably not completely because there are crawlers out there not obeying robots.txt)

  • Take a look at the worst offenders from /admin/reports/web_crawlers and add their user-agents to the blocked crawler user agents site setting

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