Problem with robots

  • Resolved wordpress4all

    (@wordpress4all)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    Hi all,
    I know that it is possible to set up a number of visits after a visitor is recognized as a robot. But here’s the problem: Someone clicks through all my blog posts. He creates easily 50 visits. Thats fine. But if someone hits the main page about 50 times it is probably a robot. Is it possible to recognize a visitor as a robot when he hits the same page a certain number of times (not different pages)?
    Also the timing would be a good thing to recognize robots but as far as I understand, this tool doesn’t support it.

    Thanks in advance!

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  • Plugin Contributor Greg Ross

    (@gregross)

    We don’t track which pages a user visits so we can’t distinguish between a robot hitting the main page 50 times and a user hitting 50 different pages. However the vast majority of users won’t browse a lot of pages all at the same time for most sites so this should be an edge case. In those cases, if you’ve enabled the hit count detection, you’ll lose that user as a robot for the day.

    However having said that, most robots don’t hit a single page repeatedly (except the login page if they’re trying to brute force your site of course), so a robot will actually look much like a user browsing your site page by page.

    As above, since we don’t track user page hits there’s no way to exclude them based on timing.

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