1000s of page views from bot

  • Resolved barleymania

    (@barleymania)


    7 years, 11 months ago

    Hey guys,

    Hope you can help me. I’ve been running a small blog for about half a year. On a good day, I have maybe 150 views from 100 individual visitors – most of the time I have less traffic. Today, I already got 2,662 views from 43 visitors. 2,600 of these views happend on my blog’s home page.

    I guess the bulk of these new views comes from a bot or spider that is accessing my blog over and over again. Unfortunately, this messes up my stats and hits counter with traffic that I have not “earned” and that is not real.

    Is there any way to stop this and maybe even reset or readjust my stats?

    I am currently using a free version of WordPress with ads. I already read about a plugin called WordFence and tried to install it, but seem to not be able to do so. Is this because I do not have a paid Personal or Premium account?

    Anyway, hope you guys can help me out here.

    Thanks for your aid & All the best,
    Tobi

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Due to the differences between the free hosted blogs offered at wordpress.com and the self-hosted and self-installed version of WordPress supported here, you should probably ask WordPress.com Support instead.

    If this relates to a theme from WordPress.com, please post in their theme forums.

    Thread Starter barleymania

    (@barleymania)

    Ah, sorry. Didn’t know that. I now re-posted my question in the forum you linked in your post. Thanks for letting me know.

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