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Exclude as many automated bots as possible from being tracked (more reliable tracking) #5845
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this is the more complete version of the ticket #3556 |
This is a fine idea. Have you often seen live examples of such bots? |
FYI: As long as the bots, spiders, and so an can be detected by their user agent, they should be added to the DeviceDetector. Bots detected by DeviceDetector are ignored by Piwik as default (unless bots=1 is given while tracking). For a full list of detected bots see https://github.com/piwik/device-detector/blob/master/regexes/bots.yml |
I know lots of people who uses websites watcher to always have a message if there is
-> Its really comfortable to have all this in one place! and if you look on relatively special / deep topics websites which have a view counter on it, you can see that you with your automatic watcher are sometimes e.g. 20% of their visits... |
I'm afraid the great device-detector does only help for ticket topic "1)" because
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Hello, please report all bots to our other popular Device Detector project, which also keeps tracks of bots: https://github.com/piwik/device-detector/ |
Improve statistic quality / More realistic statistics
There are more and more AUTOMATIC visitors around and distort/falsify our great statistics:
not only
but also
a) standalone softwares
b) browser plugins
c) webservices
and
a) Depending on the browser and its setting, in the worst case every time the browser starts a new visit is counted:
-after booting and opening the browser every morning
-after updates (especially alpha/beta users may gets lots of updates..)
-after installing/update some browser plugins
-...
b) websites which were used and are not left or closed but are still opened in a browser tab doesn't stop making visit-time count!
=> Piwik should take action to get rid of all this misinformation!!
What could be done (cleaning actions):
To make this as transparent as possible, all statistic cleaning-actions should be transparent visible to and selectable by the piwik users.
There are at least two places where this could be done:
A) Globally in the settings
maybe at a new tab "Statistic quality"
via a list with checkboxes to activate each single type of "cleaning action"
B) as items in the segment editor /filter (e.g. when disabled it globally)
What do you think of this topic and the details?
I think this has a huge impact on our statistics and in consequence on our interpretation and the things we do/change/add/modify on our websites
Please add any comments and additional ideas!!
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