Google Traffic

Hi @politicske,

I’v checked under Audience > Mobile Devices, and I have Stealth mode enabled on two sites, both of them are not showing any strange bounce rates or devices. One has compatibility mode enabled for Monster Insights, the other for WooCommerce integration. Both are showing healthy analytics, nothing seems off. Perhaps it’s a bug in GADWP?

Hi @politicske,

I disabled CAOS’ compatibility mode this morning on one of my sites and let it run for the rest of the day, to see if that made a difference and to replicate your settings. But it didn’t, I’m getting most traffic from Apple iPhone, Google Nexus 5 only has 2 hits, but all devices show healthy bounce rates (30 – 50 %).

So, I think it’s save to say that this is not a CAOS’ issue. Which places it outside the scope of this Support Forum. If you want me to help you sort this out further, please contact me using the contact form on my blog.

Hmm, so apparently it has something to do with Stealth Mode then?

That’s interesting. Perhaps it’s somehow related to the User-Agent issue we resolved earlier. Could you do something for me?

Within your wp-config.php-file, add the following right above /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */:

define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false);

This enables debugging, but doesn’t show them on your screen.

Add the following code to your-wp-content-folder/host-analyticsjs-local/includes/class-caos-proxy.php on line 103 (so right before try {):

error_log('CAOS: ' . $request->get_header('user_agent'));

So it should look like this:

$url = CAOS_GA_URL . '/r/collect' . $query;
error_log('CAOS: ' .  $request->get_header('user_agent'));
try {

Allow this to run for a day, and then share the log file with me (only the entries starting with CAOS:). This might give us a little more insight into the devices actually used on your site.

Hi @politicske,

Yes please. The proxy is only used when Stealth Mode is enabled.

Allow this to run for a day, and then share the log file with me (only the entries starting with CAOS:).

Hi @politicske,

You’re right. It makes sense to add a file-upload field to my contact form. So I did!

Only text-files and images are allowed with a limit of 1mb. So, go ahead!

Hi @politicske,

I don’t think this is a bug.

To break it down:
The log consists of 2.235 lines,
Of which 1.819 are visits from Android devices varying in version number,
Of which 438 are one (!) Nexus 5 device.

So, I guess you just have a lot of visits from one Nexus 5 user. I guess you have a fan! 😛 It’s exactly the same Android version (4.2.1), build (JOP40D) and browser version (Chrome 38.0.1025.166), so I assume it’s the same person/device (or perhaps a test site or uptime checker like pingdom?) This might also explain the insanely low bounce rate, because it’s like he never leaves.

In anyway, I think it’s safe to assume that there’s no bug. If you have any other insights or ideas on this I’d be happy to inspect further, but I really don’t think this is a bug.

I would exclude it from your Analytics reports by setting up a filter.