Title: Bots
Last modified: December 19, 2025

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# Bots

 *  Resolved [frisby67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frisby67/)
 * (@frisby67)
 * [4 months, 4 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bots-16/)
 * We have Independent Analytics and the readings seem top be skewed by bots that
   visit the sight and go from page to page to page, nd look for pages that are 
   not there . Lots of 404’s ..I’m not very rtech oriented…what is the solution…
   I want accurate stats
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   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/)
 * (@bensibley)
 * [4 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bots-16/#post-18763745)
 * Hi there,
 * Thanks for getting in touch about this.
 * Independent Analytics ignores self-identifying bots like search engine crawlers,
   but doesn’t make any attempts to block bots that disguise themselves as human
   visitors. If you are getting visits from malicious bots, I would recommend using
   either Cloudflare or the Shield Security plugin to block them (both are free).
   These will block the “bad bots” from accessing your site entirely, rather than
   just keeping them out of your stats.

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 * Last activity: [4 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bots-16/#post-18763745)
 * Status: resolved