Traffic that is not human.
WHAT BOTS ARE
Automated requests: crawlers, scrapers, scanners, monitoring services.
HOW MUCH THERE IS
On many small sites, more than human traffic.
WHERE THEY SHOW
Server statistics include them.
Analytics services filter most, imperfectly.
WHAT THAT MEANS
Your cPanel visitor count and your analytics count will differ substantially.
Neither is wrong. They measure different things.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR
Sudden traffic spikes with no conversions Traffic from unexpected locations with zero engagement Referral entries from sites that do not exist
THE SPAM REFERRAL PROBLEM
Fake referrals appearing in your data to attract your attention.
Ignore them. Do not visit the sites.
WHAT TO DO
Enable bot filtering where your analytics offers it.
WHAT NOT TO DO
Celebrate a traffic spike without checking whether it was human.
WHY IT MATTERS FOR HOSTING
Bot traffic consumes real resources. See our resource limits articles.
