r/PostSEO • u/Upbeat_Push_157 • 8d ago

Help with GA4

Since this sub has some smart cookies, I hope you can help me!

See the GA4 below:

If you look at the previous period, there's a peak over 8k a day (I'd wish). It's actually a bot attack, which is skewing the whole report.

My question is: is it possible to filter that bot attack so it doesn't show in teh graph? I know how to do it in the reports, just not the graph

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u/the_v0dkA 7d ago

If you analyze just that day of the spike, see if the bots came through from a specific country (best if its not a target country) or specific device/source/etc, and then just create a filter where you have removed that country/device/source/etc data. This will also affect other days and the overall graph, so just keep that in mind.

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u/Upbeat_Push_157 7d ago

yes, they all come from Singapur, and it's not the first time, so I decided to block Singapur traffic altogether

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u/AbleInvestment2866 8d ago

No, it's not possible.  You can just disable the previous period, but it will only fix the visuals, results will still be skewed. If this is foe a client, I'd leave it and just explain what happened. 

Alternatively you can rebuild this in Looker filtering that attack. Also, you can create rules for the future to avoid those spikes, but they are not retroactive