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    <title>topic Re: Is this bot traffic and if yes what actions can be done? in Adobe Analytics Questions</title>
    <link>https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-analytics-questions/is-this-bot-traffic-and-if-yes-what-actions-can-be-done/m-p/456513#M37823</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;There is also another possible source of bot traffic that your IT team is doing regular pentest to your website.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2022 05:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>leocwlau</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2022-06-16T05:22:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Is this bot traffic and if yes what actions can be done?</title>
      <link>https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-analytics-questions/is-this-bot-traffic-and-if-yes-what-actions-can-be-done/m-p/456440#M37817</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I'm looking closely at our website traffic patterns and noticed something strange. Yesterday, June 14, 2022, I broke down Pageviews/Visits/Unique Visitors and Bounces by Hour of Day. At 3:00 AM there was a big spike in traffic. Broken down further by Browser, IP Address and Region, I found that the traffic spike was from a single Browser - Google Chrome 91.0, a single IP address (in screenshot below), and Region - Oregon. The Bounces coming from this device is extremely high,&amp;nbsp; bounce rate in the high 90s.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I checked traffic for a different day I picked randomly - June 1, 2022. Once again there's a spike in traffic at 3 AM from the same Browser and IP Address.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We aren't in retail and don't operate an online store. We operate in the Eastern Time Zone within regular business hours, 9 am - 5 pm. There is no reason for anyone to use the site at 3 AM as opposed to regular business hours or perhaps earlier and later like in the evening but using the site at 3 AM is unexpected and strange to say the least. Whatever visitors need to use, access, download from our site are available any time.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I suspect this is bot traffic. Please kindly take a look and let me know your opinion. If it appears to be bot traffic, what can be done about it? I realize I can create a segment to exclude this traffic from reports but is that the only thing that can be done?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="2022-06-15_10-11-27.png" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/41893i9C45A085C96C73BD/image-size/large/is-moderation-mode/true?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="2022-06-15_10-11-27.png" alt="2022-06-15_10-11-27.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="2022-06-15_10-14-15.png" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/41894i05FFE28E730FB8FA/image-size/large/is-moderation-mode/true?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="2022-06-15_10-14-15.png" alt="2022-06-15_10-14-15.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 14:17:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>michaela7702973</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-06-15T14:17:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Is this bot traffic and if yes what actions can be done?</title>
      <link>https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-analytics-questions/is-this-bot-traffic-and-if-yes-what-actions-can-be-done/m-p/456443#M37819</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Check with your marketing teams have they recently purchased any SEM/keyword or digital banner traffic?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;BOT like traffic could be when such traffic is bought from 3rd party suppliers...&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 14:28:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Pablo_Childe</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-06-15T14:28:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Is this bot traffic and if yes what actions can be done?</title>
      <link>https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-analytics-questions/is-this-bot-traffic-and-if-yes-what-actions-can-be-done/m-p/456513#M37823</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;There is also another possible source of bot traffic that your IT team is doing regular pentest to your website.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2022 05:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-analytics-questions/is-this-bot-traffic-and-if-yes-what-actions-can-be-done/m-p/456513#M37823</guid>
      <dc:creator>leocwlau</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-06-16T05:22:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Is this bot traffic and if yes what actions can be done?</title>
      <link>https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-analytics-questions/is-this-bot-traffic-and-if-yes-what-actions-can-be-done/m-p/457729#M37962</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;The traffic was from a company that we've engaged for regulatory archiving purposes, unbeknownst to me. I added the IP Address to the Exclude By IP Address (Analytics&amp;nbsp;&amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;Admin&amp;nbsp;&amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;All admin&amp;nbsp;&amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;Exclude by IP) to prevent it from skewing our analytics data.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:13:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-analytics-questions/is-this-bot-traffic-and-if-yes-what-actions-can-be-done/m-p/457729#M37962</guid>
      <dc:creator>michaela7702973</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-06-23T13:13:02Z</dc:date>
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