Hi @ambientblog,
Thank you for being willing to give it another try, and for sharing those specific numbers — that’s very helpful for diagnosing the issue.
A difference of 92 vs 1,841 strongly suggests that a significant portion of those hits are coming from bots, crawlers, and other non-human traffic that aren’t being filtered. Here’s what I’d recommend checking:
Navigate to Settings → Filtering & Exceptions and review the following sections:
User Role Exclusions
Make sure at least Administrator is checked so your own visits aren’t counted. You can also exclude other roles like Editor, Subscriber, or even Anonymous Users if needed.
Robot Exclusions
- Custom Bot Exclusions — WP Statistics already filters common crawlers using a built-in bot detection library, but you can add additional user-agent strings here if you notice specific bots slipping through.
- Robot View Threshold — Set a daily threshold (e.g., 50). Any IP that exceeds this number of daily visits will automatically be identified and excluded as a bot. This is very effective at catching bots that aren’t in the standard signature list.
IP Exclusions
If you know of specific IPs generating spam traffic, you can add them here. Supports both IPv4 (with CIDR notation like 192.168.0.0/24) and IPv6 ranges.
GeoLocation Exclusions
You can exclude or include traffic from specific countries using country codes. Useful if you’re getting heavy bot traffic from certain regions.
URL Exclusions
- Excluded Login Page — Excludes login/register page visits from your stats.
- Excluded RSS Feeds — Excludes RSS feed hits.
- Excluded 404 Pages — Excludes 404 error page visits.
- Excluded URLs — You can list specific URLs to exclude, with wildcard (
*) support (e.g., /internal/*).
Log Record Exclusions
I’d also recommend enabling the Log Record Exclusions option at the bottom of that page. Once enabled, a new Exclusions page will appear in your dashboard that shows you exactly what type of traffic is being filtered and why (e.g., Robot, IP Match, Robot Threshold, 404, Login Page, etc.). This gives you a clear breakdown so you can monitor how effective your filtering is and fine-tune your settings accordingly.
After enabling these settings, especially the Robot View Threshold, give it a few days and compare with Google Analytics again. Some gap will always remain since GA uses client-side JavaScript tracking (which misses visitors using ad blockers), while WP Statistics tracks server-side. But the difference should no longer be anywhere near 20x.
Feel free to share a screenshot of your Filtering & Exceptions page if you’d like us to review your configuration.
Best regards
