# Very high user profile views
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-high-user-profile-views/83885
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 26, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-high-user-profile-views/83885 "2018-03-26T17:15:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-high-user-profile-views/83885/1 "2018-03-26T17:15:28Z")
One of my Discourse sites that attracts about 40 logged-on users a day is seeing spikes of \> 500 user profile views on some days.
I’ve used the Dataexplorer plugin to work out that most are from a single IP: 23.237.4.26 which does not appear to be from a registered user.
```plaintext
SELECT
user_profile_views.ip_address,
COUNT(user_profile_views.ip_address)
FROM user_profile_views
WHERE viewed_at > '3/24/2018'
GROUP BY user_profile_views.ip_address
ORDER BY COUNT(user_profile_views.ip_address) DESC
```
I’m aware of the prior posts on this subject but the Topics are all closed.
Anyone still seeing this? Any thoughts?
I have taken action and now set this setting:
```plaintext
hide user profiles from public
Disable user cards, user profiles and user directory for anonymous users.
```
To checked.
Any more advice would be appreciated.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-high-user-profile-views/83885/2 "2018-03-26T22:24:50Z")
Can you check your HTTP request logs to see what the `user-agent` is for the request?
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2018, 8:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-high-user-profile-views/83885/3 "2018-03-27T08:14:20Z")
Yep, indeed, on doing this:
```plaintext
root@blah-app:/var/log/nginx# grep '23.237.4.26' access.log.1
```
I discovered many instances of this:
```plaintext
AlphaBot/3.2; +http://alphaseobot.com/bot.html
```
Found this:
[http://www.theinternetofbots.com/list-of-bots/alphabot.html](http://www.theinternetofbots.com/list-of-bots/alphabot.html)
A bot for collecting data for SEO reports?
So I guess harmless?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2018, 10:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-high-user-profile-views/83885/4 "2018-03-27T10:01:46Z")
Good news! @neil is working on a feature that lets you block badly behaved bots. Should be ready by end of week.
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### Author:  [@VoskCoin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/VoskCoin)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 6:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-high-user-profile-views/83885/5 "2020-04-30T18:57:40Z")
What’s the issue with the above? If you don’t mind explaining it 😃
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-high-user-profile-views/83885/6 "2020-04-30T22:43:23Z")
Search your site setting for “blacklisted crawler” and add unique user agent strings as you see fit.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-high-user-profile-views/83885/7 "2024-06-08T12:37:06Z")
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