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Does this take into account bots and other non-human stuff GA might block? Server logs and GA are measuring different things.
by Narkov 7y ago
Does this take into account bots and other non-human stuff GA might block? Server logs and GA are measuring different things.
- Ayesh 7y agoI don't think there is an effective way to distinguish bots from real users when a UA is faking what it is. IP filtering or other measures can help, but you ultimately rely on the UA strong from the UA.
- Narkov 7y agoThat's true for the server logs but GA has access to much more information to make a decision like that. My point is that comparing server logs to GA results is invalid.
- cerved 7y agoThis. Does it take into account scraping bots? I remember looking at my server logs many years ago, finding a surprising amount of Chinese and Russian visits for my personal website. Eventually I realized it was Baidu Yandex type stuff