![]() ![]() This will filter out any spam traffic in your specified date range. When reviewing data that includes 31st January to 1st February 2021 use a Segment with the settings of Browser Size exactly matches (not set). Use Google Analytics Segments to exclude the data Depending on the configuration of your site you may have pages which don’t have Page Titles (for example in a checkout process) so double check you’re not accidentally excluding real users. You may wish to also exclude any Page Title equals (not set) if Browser Size does not exclude all spam traffic from your reports. This article from Organic Digital details the discovery and identification of the issue and potential fixes. The spam traffic can be identified by looking for any sessions with Browser Size equals (not set). Until then, there are steps you can take to filter out this spam traffic from your account. ![]() Hopefully Google will be able to remove this from all affected accounts in time, but there’s yet to be an official confirmation of any intended fix. ![]() Unfortunately there is no way to remove unwanted historical data in Google Analytics aggregated reports. Isolating the spam traffic using a Secondary dimension for Browser Size Although its hard to say exactly what these bots are after, its not unusual for a website owner to suddenly notice a large amount of bot traffic in their Google. This attack was able to bypass the Bot Filtering setting to Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders you may already have turned on in your account. The current bot traffic were seeing is going to nonexistent URLs that end with something like trafficbot.life, bottraffic.live, bot-traffic.icu, trafficbot.live, or bot-traffic.xyz. This spam data will affect metrics across your different reports in Google Analytics. These are not real pages on your website and they’re not real users. If your account was affected you’ll see a spike in users visiting pages such as: What is the problem?Ī large-scale automated bot attack sent fake Google Analytics traffic to non-existent web pages between 31st January and 1st February 2021.
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