Spam Direct Traffic
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Hello,
Lately, I have been receiving a big amount of unexpected direct traffic from Boston. After analyzing with Analytivs, this is what I get (please, check attachment).
Normally I would be blocking this traffic source straight away from my Google Analytics account, and also blocking this traffic from accesing my servers, but check out the analytic metrics:
- this traffic represents 12% of my total traffic right now!!!
- av. session duration is 4:53 !!
- bounce rate is 72% !!!!
- pages/session 1.44 !!
Service provider is "Microsoft Corporation" who looks like one of the typical spammy service providers. My question is, is this a bot?? what do you think ?
Thanks,
Luis
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It looks like spam to me, however what does your other traffic sources look like? Is it similar in numbers and from specific locations? Are you directly targeting Boston? To me,because the service provider is always Microsoft I feel it is a spam bot.
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I think that it's very possible, probably it's a bot...!
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