Drupal 7: Do not count visits of bots or spammers

Posted by rolf on Friday, 13 February 2015

If you use the statistics module (in core in Drupal 7) to show how many times an article was read, there are two problems with that number

  1. also bots and spammers are count
  2. if you reload the page (e.g. with F5) the number is incremented

SOLUTION TO 1.

Browse to 

MYWEBISTE.com/admin/config/system/statistics

and check

"

Then only users who have javascript enabled are counted. Bots most of the time are not jusing a browser, hence have no javascript and will not be counted.

 

SO FAR NO EASY SOLUTION TO 2.

this seems to be a major issue in Drupal 7, see  this Drupal post. One easy solution might be to not use the statistics module, but rely on the google analytics module.

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