• Resolved Jonathan

    (@jvdhelder)


    Hi, I get unwanted bot traffic from urlumbrella.com and want to block it wihtin the GA4. Can you add this feature to add the “'ignore_referrer':?'true'“?

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  • Plugin Support James Osborne

    (@jamesosborne)

    Thanks for reaching out. When using GA4, known bot traffic is automatically excluded from reporting.

    For domains which you have identified as bot traffic, you can add these to your unwanted referrals list, using the steps in this guide. This will ensure that going forward, referral traffic from the domain you provided will no longer be included, with the 'ignore_referrer':?'true' attribute already applied.

    To ensure traffic from that domain is not included for existing reports, from before the time you add any wanted referrals, you can apply a filter to exclude this domain. The guide below provided guidance on this:
    https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/10104470

    Note also that you can define you audience within Google Analytics to view data from all but the domain you’ve highlighted.

    The above configurations are all done from analytics.google.com. While we’re limited to Site Kit queries here in the plugin support forums, the product experts over at the Analytics Help Center should be able to provide further assistance with this.

    Note also that we are working on a feature within Site Kit that will eventually be able to filter the audience as per the suggestion above. It’s still very early days on this, and it won’t filter your data overall, but it will display data based on your defined audience, which can include excluding traffic.

    Let me know if you have any questions with this.

    Thread Starter Jonathan

    (@jvdhelder)

    Thanks for your reply!

    So if I understand correctly, ‘ignore_referrer’ is already set to ‘true’ by default within the Site Kit-plugin?

    Plugin Support James Osborne

    (@jamesosborne)

    No problem, happy to assist.

    So if I understand correctly, ‘ignore_referrer’ is already set to ‘true’ by default within the Site Kit-plugin?

    Site Kit doesn’t set any ignore_referrer value. Site Kit places the Analytics code snippet on a users site. Analytics itself, by default, doesn’t include known bots. From reviewing the below guide, I don’t believe it does this via setting a ignore_referrer value:
    https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9888366

    It looks like it excludes bots via other means.

    Let me know if you have any further questions with the above.

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