How to Tell If You’re Being Overrun With Bot Traffic

[Saurabh Jain]

On my board it shows 500 guest online and when I see google analytic   real time overview  it shows below 100  in 80's

How to identify the same and what to do?

Thanks in advance

Regards

Saurabh

 

[Saurabh Jain]

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[IveLeft...]

Take a look at the server logs

if your running Apache then copy the access logs to a directory and name the file and run the following command from ssh

$cat copied_apache_log_file.log | awk -F\" '{print $6}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

 

[opentype]

The number shown on the site counts sessions, not visitors. A single visitor (or bot) might create many sessions. This can easily explain why you see different numbers. 

In addition, the results from server counts and external JavaScript-based trackers like Google Analytics will always differ, since the latter get blocked a lot. 

There isn’t really much to do about these things. Unless you have other problems with bots, I wouldn’t really worry about guest count numbers. 

[Saurabh Jain]

4 hours ago, opentype said:

The number shown on the site counts sessions, not visitors. A single visitor (or bot) might create many sessions. This can easily explain why you see different numbers. 

In addition, the results from server counts and external JavaScript-based trackers like Google Analytics will always differ, since the latter get blocked a lot. 

There isn’t really much to do about these things. Unless you have other problems with bots, I wouldn’t really worry about guest count numbers. 

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[Rhett]

As mentioned in your ticket, so others can also see this info, google analytic does not count search engine traffic or other bots, so their numbers will never match up with any other stats program.