Visits from own website IP

  • Resolved jorritgo

    (@jorritgo)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,
    first of all: great plugin, so thanks for all the work on it.

    I had a question on how IPs may be registered. On a very new project, I see hundreds of visitors from the US, but the largest fraction of it is logged as having the IP of my own website.

    I always login as admin myself, and I have set statistics to exclude admin visitors.

    What could be the rest? Are these website processes that get counted as activity? Is it people that have logged in with a WP login? Something else?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Contributor Greg Ross

    (@gregross)

    Some theme’s make calls to resource files that can be counted by WP Statistics. Take a look at your top pages and see if anything obvious sticks out and you can exclude them from the stats through the settings page.

    Thread Starter jorritgo

    (@jorritgo)

    It’s the home page that has the bulk of visits. Nothing particular.

    Put another though: is it possible, or likely even, that some of the traffic registered with my own website’s IP is actually human visitors?
    If it is always just website processes, I could just as well exclude it.

    Thread Starter jorritgo

    (@jorritgo)

    I have actually already confirmed that some outside visits would be logged as from my own website. I see visits to a post a recently spammed on some boards, logged as the website’s IP, but with different OS and browsers.

    My settings exclude robots and myself, so I guess at least some of that traffic is actual outside visitors.

    If you happen to have any smart suggestions on how I could improve the way these visits are logged, i’d be happy to hear it. Otherwise I will just use it as is.

    Plugin Contributor Greg Ross

    (@gregross)

    More than likely it’s spambots spoofing their IP address to match yours hoping to be auto approved based on the IP address.

    Unless you have a badly configured proxy server in front of your WordPress install, it’s safe to assume that none of those hits are actual users.

    If you have a static IP address for your site, you can exclude those hits based on that.

    Thread Starter jorritgo

    (@jorritgo)

    Yeah, it is a static IP. Thanks for the insight. Guess I will add it to the exclusions.
    Thanks

    Thread Starter jorritgo

    (@jorritgo)

    Small update: just googled my site in a incognito session in Chrome, and another visit using my phone, where I’m not logged in. Both visits are logged as coming from my own website’s IP.
    I’m going to guess this will be something theme or wordpress related, so no need to do anything with this, but just wanted to let you know.

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