Dan.com bots

[lknights1987]

Is there a way of finding out where bot views are coming from?

 

[NickB]

Connect Google Analytics to DAN

Then in Google Analytics.......

Select Acquisition from the left side column
Select All Traffic and then Channels.
Click Referral in the Default Channel Grouping list
Show Rows
Then check the results

 

[kite26]

@NickB
How to connect Google Analytics? Can you write the steps? I can't find tracking ID.

 

[NickB]

Set up Google Analytics first

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1008015?hl=en

Then get your Tracking ID

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9539598?hl=en

Then go to DAN
Go to Settings
Go to Integrations
Add tracking ID number to the box under Google Analytics
Save

Done......

 

[kite26]

What url to put?

 

[NickB]

www . dan . com

 

[NickB]

One other thing if you want the tracking ID follow the below steps.....This is because Analytics 4.0 does not have one

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/10269537

There is a link on the page that I provided above but it is easy to miss.......

 

[Shamiul]

And upgrading to GA4 is recommended.

 

[NickB]

And upgrading to GA4 is recommended.

Yeah - you can have both running by opting in for the universal analytics property and keeping the create both box ticked, this way you get the ID and the benefits of GA4

 

[kite26]

www . dan . com

Done, thanks!

 

[kite26]

And upgrading to GA4 is recommended.

That was the issue.

 

[lknights1987]

Connect Google Analytics to DAN

Then in Google Analytics.......

Select Acquisition from the left side column
Select All Traffic and then Channels.
Click Referral in the Default Channel Grouping list
Show Rows
Then check the results

So all the results showing in this section are most likely bots?

I have 6 different results in total

 

[NickB]

So all the results showing in this section are most likely bots?

I have 6 different results in total

This section shows you where your traffic is coming from.......

Sometimes it will say bot traffic

Sometimes you will have to take an educated guess or look into the sources

 

[lknights1987]

This section shows you where your traffic is coming from.......

Sometimes it will say bot traffic

Sometimes you will have to take an educated guess or look into the sources

what i see is in the screenshot attached

 

[Future Sensors]

Be aware that Google Analytics does not display all human visitors, due to the use of adblockers and privacy-friendly browsers that the more tech-savvy audiences use more frequently. The more people block such tracking mechanisms, the more it appears that "only web crawlers" are visiting your sites.

https://dev.to/markosaric/how-much-data-is-missing-from-google-analytics-due-to-adblockers-4867