tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844491272408973601.post2431583259433025698..comments2023-10-10T05:43:15.699-07:00Comments on Research Ferret: A Strange BotNet that Processes Javascript? Signature: Windows / Internet Explorer, New Unique Visitors, Direct Navigation to 1 of 3 pages (evenly divided in thirds), 100% Bounce RateUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844491272408973601.post-85373113720801034262013-01-06T23:42:55.147-08:002013-01-06T23:42:55.147-08:00Have had similar issues. In one case it was desig...Have had similar issues. In one case it was designed to show up in analytics reports with their link which was designed to get the admin to click on the link to go to their site. That was ONE. The others have been generating spikes in traffic that LOOK like they could be upticks in real traffic, but they all come from the same cluster of sources. Luckily, I do not do Adsense but could see how this might mess some folks up who do. Himhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844491272408973601.post-19665046447182152852012-09-12T05:27:07.014-07:002012-09-12T05:27:07.014-07:00Hi
We've started seeing the same thing... it&...Hi<br /><br />We've started seeing the same thing... it's generating about 3-5k visits per day, and most of it is from 3 locations in the US (Emeryville, Clearwater, Tempe).<br />Traffic from all 3 locations started appearing on 31 August 2012.<br />Each visit loads only 1 page, and has a session duration of zero second and 100% bounce rate.<br />The pages visited are all over our site - it almost looks like the site is being crawled, but each visit only loads 1 page.<br />The traffic is indicated as Direct in Google Analytics, but if I add Domain as a secondary dimension it shows as 'msn.com'.<br />All of it is Windows, all has a screen res of 1024x768, all uses Mozilla 5 compatible UA.<br />We thought it might be Pingdom or something like that but have stopped all those services and the traffic persists.<br />We did launch an updated GA tag on the same day that we started seeing the weird zombie direct traffic.<br />The tag update connects DoubleClick with GA to enable remarketing list creation via GA.<br />http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2444872<br />We do not run Adsense on our site at all.<br />It would be interesting to know whether other people affected by this issue run the new tag or have Adsense displayed on their account.Tim Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11605655006792337211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844491272408973601.post-90968684204842350862012-04-27T23:55:05.495-07:002012-04-27T23:55:05.495-07:00Guys,
Here's the solution we ended up impleme...Guys,<br /><br />Here's the solution we ended up implementing. It relies on the fact the the bad traffic appears to be devoid of DOM events.<br /><br />http://stkywll.com/2012/04/27/annoying-robots-a-solution-for-google-analytics/Matt Perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07550973407161283019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844491272408973601.post-83239550168416493912012-04-11T17:07:39.189-07:002012-04-11T17:07:39.189-07:00I'm facing the same issue
Would it be possibl...I'm facing the same issue<br /><br />Would it be possible for you to share the code you're using to intercept and qualify the traffic?Steve Meyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04237376977781183764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844491272408973601.post-20622915100469622432012-04-07T06:28:53.659-07:002012-04-07T06:28:53.659-07:00Thanks for the comment Matt and linking me into ot...Thanks for the comment Matt and linking me into others experiencing this. Nice to know I am not the only one dealing with this. I must not be crazy!<br /><br />Two and a half months later, we are still seeing this odd traffic. It shifted to landing on just one page. It seems to be slowly going away. We are down to 3-5K visits a day from the peak of 33K. <br /><br />Aside from setting up a page to intercept the traffic and qualify it for the purpose of protecting traffic quality for our ads, we didn't figure out anything else to do. We hoping if we ride it out long enough it will eventually go away. <br /><br />If you want to remove it from Analytics one way to do that would be to show a "We are experiencing unusual traffic volume notice" page to visitors that match the profile. Don't include the GA tag on the page. Provided a link to continue to the site for the few humans who see the page. This keeps the traffic from being logged. The trouble is that if you don't log it you wouldn't know when it was gone. Another option would be to trigger an event that you can use as a filter.PeterAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12578570099807484627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844491272408973601.post-69672638985695652982012-03-07T11:16:54.305-08:002012-03-07T11:16:54.305-08:00Same thing is happening to us. If you have any up...Same thing is happening to us. If you have any updates, I'd love to hear where you're at with this -- have you been able to distinguish this traffic from normal traffic?<br /><br />http://stkywll.com/2012/03/02/annoying-cyborgs-attach-distort-analytics/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com