Flag Counter Forum / Robots from Singapore

**Posted by michpom** August 31, 2024 9:47 am

Hello,

I have a site dedicated to Bob Dylan where I have noted during the 6 last months a huge amount (100s daily...) of visits from Singapore that soon became the 2nd country sending visits to the site.
As I do not think there are in Singapore so many Dylan fans suddenly interested by my site, I suppose they are just robots.
These 'visits' concentrate on some days, or weeks, and then cease.

But what is very strange to me is that Google Analytics DOES NOT SEE these visitors from Singapore!
This country just does not appear in Analytics results... (see the iages)

This is not really a problem, but could somebody please give me an explanation?

Thank you,

Michel

Last edited by michpom (August 31, 2024 9:48 am)

**Posted by holland25** August 31, 2024 1:33 pm

Yeah, there's a very good chance GA has them filtered out. They're Bytespider crawlers designed to "borrow" images from sites for their AI bullshit. The worst thing is they can't be blocked

**Posted by michpom** August 31, 2024 1:47 pm

I have blocked Singapore on the .htaccess file ...
Do not know if it will really block them ...

Last edited by michpom (August 31, 2024 1:48 pm)

**Posted by holland25** August 31, 2024 1:49 pm

It may or may not. They can also be allocated to 10 different countries in 10 different databases

**Posted by Fernanjot** September 1, 2024 10:31 pm

michpom wrote:
I have blocked Singapore on the .htaccess file ...
Do not know if it will really block them ...

Forget it. I tried too without success.

https://flagcounter.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=29328

Last edited by Fernanjot (September 1, 2024 10:32 pm)