Analytics Spam Blocker

Descripción

For any website or business owner, having Matomo Analytics, Google Analytics and similar services are a vital tool to track your website performance. Unfortunately there are spam bots from many shady organizations that bounce off your website and give you false records in your analytics – This is called referral spam or more commonly referrer spam. Analytics Spam Blocker prevents referrer spam from ever reaching your website by blocking them at the server level leaving your analytics untouched. Easily report new domains you find to our free API for regular updates of the blocklist. Stop those sites from affecting anyones website analytics today!

Help make Analytics Spam Blocker better and report referrer spam domains via the reporting tool in Analytics Spam Blocker, you can access the dashboard page in the Tools menu of the WordPress dashboard.

Capturas

  • Reporting tool
  • Subscription banner
  • Plugin status

Instalación

  1. Navigate to Plugins > Add New in your dashboard.
  2. Search for ‘Arnan’ in the plugin database and click install on the ‘Analytics Spam Blocker’ plugin.
  3. Once installed activate the plugin and you’re ready to go.
  4. Navigate to Tools > Analytics Spam Blocker in your dashboard to make reports.

FAQ

How does this work?

Analytics Spam Blocker adds a list of domains to be blocked to your .htaccess file. This list is regularly updated next to what you add yourself so you’ll be able to filter out the majority of referrer spam very quickly.

Why do I need a subscription?

You don’t, older versions required a free subscribtion though. Update to version 3 or newer to see the new system.

How does the list get updated?

I’ve developed a unique reporting system where you can easily report suspicious domains. If the domain gets reported a few times by different people it will be included in the blocklist.

Who manages the blocklist updates?

In a way, you do. By reporting new domains. However the system is mostly automated after you send your report. The blocklist service is governed and provided by Arnan de Gans.

I need help with this plugin

Check out the Support Forum.

This is cool, do you have more plugins?

Yep, check out my website AJdG Solutions.

Reseñas

1 de junio de 2020
This works much better than trying to maintain and update my own filter list in Google Analytics.
4 de mayo de 2022
Wait for 7 days then check your Referrers for that time people. Spam will be gone for that 7 days. This is to say the old bad Referrers don't go away. But new ones are blocked as they should be. EDIT*** Lowered my rating. Regardless of how good or bad the plug-in may be, these developers insist on putting big beg notices on the Admin page. This is a rookie marketing error on their part. I have deleted the plug-in to get rid of their trash. Analytics Spam Blocker continued to beg for a review (even though I reviewed it before), and this is it. I think your Admin page noitces doom you to failure.
28 de julio de 2018
This is a great plugin that has really helped me ensure that my GA stats are real. I've recently started blogging, and I was really excited to see my pageviews go way up in one day, until I realized it was almost all fake. 🙁 As soon as I installed Analytics Spam Blocker, my stats went back to normal. The plugin was easy to install and I had no issues.
27 de julio de 2017
Works fairly well, but it needs some improvements. Modern Referral spam bots often use 'look alike characters' in domain names, characters from non-western alphabets resembling western characters. The function to report a spam domain however tells that the 'domain name is not valid'. Like for example ḷ.com...
14 de octubre de 2016 1 reply
I found it completely useless in getting rid of www1.free-share-buttons.top
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Registro de cambios

3.1.2 – 17 April, 2023

  • Added 3 more domains to the default blocklist.

3.1.1 – 5 February, 2023

  • Typos in the dashboard
  • Updated translation file

3.1 – 31 January, 2023

  • Updated dashboard sections
  • Updated support links
  • Removed help tabs
  • Removed unused icons

3.0.3 – 2 January, 2023

  • Updated dashboard sections
  • Updated support links
  • Updated stats widget

3.0.2 – 21 December, 2022

  • Fixed compatibility info
  • Fixed support links

3.0.1 – 7 October, 2022

  • Added 5 new domains to blocklist following user reports
  • Updated support links

3.0 – 19 March, 2022

  • All new plugin, familiar dashboard
  • Local blocklists for immediate results
  • Report new domains easier than ever
  • Translation support
  • Now uses Api3

2.9.6 – 25 January, 2021

  • Happy New Year
  • Added News&Update links

2.9.5 – 27 December, 2020

  • Tested to work with WordPress 5.6
  • [change] Dashboard tweaks
  • [tweak] Better descriptions throughout the plugin

2.9.4 – 3 August, 2020

  • Tested to work with WordPress 5.5
  • [change] Dashboard tweaks
  • [fix] Action link settings no longer opening in new tab

2.9.3 – 10 May, 2020

  • [fix] Dashboard stats
  • [fix] More reliable registration for new users
  • [change] Dashboard tweaks

2.9.2 – 9 September, 2019

  • [fix] Dashboard widgets showing properly
  • [i18n] Updated translations

2.9.1 – 30 August, 2019

  • [i18n] Updated translations

2.9 – 21 August, 2019

  • [change] Updated dashboard
  • [change] WordPress 5.2.2 compatibility
  • [i18n] Updated translation implementation

2.8.1 – 16 June, 2019

  • [change] Updated dashboard
  • [fix] Wrong url in plugin links

2.8 – 4 May, 2019

  • [fix] Server communication not working for some people
  • [fix] Registration process more reliable
  • [change] Updated dashboard

2.7.1 – 12 April, 2019

  • [fix] Communication error with the server for some people

2.7 – 30 March, 2019

  • [change] Updated dashboard
  • [change] Various tweaks and improvements

2.6 – 11 December, 2018

  • [change] WordPress 5.0 update
  • [change] Insights in API stats
  • [change] Updated dashboard
  • [change] Uses APIv2

2.5 – 8 July, 2018

  • [change] Compatibility update
  • [change] Updated dashboard
  • [change] More clear error displays if things go wrong

2.4.2 – 17 May, 2018

  • [change] Compatibility update
  • [change] Updated dashboard

= 2.4.1 – 12 December, 2017=
* [change] Re-arranged the dashboard
* [change] Improved compatibility with WordPress
* [change] Api updates

2.4 – 10 June, 2017

  • [fix] Better field sanitizing to better deal with copy&paste behavior
  • [fix] Better domain filtering
  • [fix] Better email handling
  • [fix] No more endless linebreaks in the .htaccess file
  • [change] Dashboard tweaks

2.3 – 14 May, 2017

  • [fix] Dashboard tweaks

2.2 – 19 April, 2017

  • [fix] Dashboard tweaks

2.1.1 – 4 April, 2017

  • [fix] Registration reminder shows up correctly

2.1 – 7 March, 2017

  • [new] Review reminder
  • [new] Registration reminder

2.0 – 3 March, 2017

  • [new] Easily report referral spam domains
  • [new] Dashboard page in Tools menu
  • [new] Daily blocklist updates
  • [change] Restructured the whole plugin

1.8.1 – 5 February, 2017

  • Development taken over by Arnan de Gans