how to detect and stop bot traffic?

[Lakz]

Hi

How can I detect if the traffic is real or bot?

 

[liyong601c]

Try crazyegg.

 

[MisterXYZ]

Use cloudflare.

 

[Mr Positive]

Check analytics, block ips, create filters

 

[TomTheCat]

Make a simple script that you can insert in all pages and log all traffic. Then analyze it and block the traffic either from the same script or iptables. 99% of bot traffic can be stopped with a few lines of codes and a heavy list of patterns.

 

[Lakz]

Make a simple script that you can insert in all pages and log all traffic. Then analyze it and block the traffic either from the same script or iptables. 99% of bot traffic can be stopped with a few lines of codes and a heavy list of patterns.

thank you I will do some research

 

[Deleted member 657006]

cloudfire and put google caphcha on all forms

 

[Deleted member 657006]

stick this in . htaccess

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AltaVista [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Googlebot [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} msnbot [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Slurp
RewriteRule ^.*$ IHateBots.html [L]

add more as needed.

proper way...

 

[amzonestep]

You can check it by Google Analytics, there you can get all the detail like from where you are getting traffic, by which mean your are getting the traffic and many more

 

[TiagoS]

The solutions posted above won't do any good. If you are serious about blocking bots you must pick a service that provides this service. I recommend IPQUALITYSCORE, it's pricey but they have a huge database, even for residential proxies, they also do real-time scoring.