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I'm curious how these alternative options (countly, matomo, snowplow, etc) handle fake referral traffic compared to how Google analytics handles it.
by radium3d 8y ago
I'm curious how these alternative options (countly, matomo, snowplow, etc) handle fake referral traffic compared to how Google analytics handles it.
- georgewfraser 8y agoNot well! Your best bet is to * Sync your (snowplow, segment, ...) data to a data warehouse * Try to clean up your data with SQL * Keep running GA so you can compare your numbers to GA
- radium3d 8y agoThat may be a helpful open source machine learning project for a self-hosted analytics system perhaps.
- coderintherye 8y agoThat's exactly what we do. Snowplow does a good job, but having the comparison points in GA is very helpful.
- tombrossman 8y agoHas Google Analytics finally begun blocking referrer spam? I know Piwik/Matomo have been doing this by default for a while: https://matomo.org/blog/2015/05/stopping-referrer-spam/ https://matomo.org/blog/2015/05/stopping-referrer-spam/ The blacklist is on GitHub and is useful for other analytics software, such as GoAccess which is what I use.
- Findus23 8y agoMatomo uses a simple community-contributed list [1] of domains that were reported by multiple people to create referrer-spam. Of course you can use the same list for every other software. [1] https://github.com/matomo-org/referrer-spam-blacklist/blob/master/spammers.txt https://github.com/matomo-org/referrer-spam-blacklist/blob/m...