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#28268 Massive reduction is Google Analytic after Admin Tools Installed

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Latest post by on Thursday, 21 September 2017 17:17 CDT

Monday, 21 August 2017 11:21 CDT

nabco-inc

Hi There,
After I installed Admin Tools on one for my sites, I experienced a major decrease in pageviews in my google analytics simultaneously. I have AT installed on 3 other sites and did not experience this issue.

I just wanted to see what could be the possible reason for this, if this is common, and/if I need to worry about it? I am using the HTAccess, WAF and Geo blocking features.

This is not a mild decrease, averages went from over 400 to about 60 pageviews a day.

Could it be all bots? Nefarious connections? Just seemed odd for a decrease that big.

Thanks for any insight you could provide on where I could search for answers on this.

Tuesday, 22 August 2017 03:38 CDT

tampe125

Hello,

Admin Tools has a very minimal impact for regular users, we're talking about few milliseconds; so Google should not detect any changes.
To be on the safe side, you should login inside your Webmaster Tools account and review any crawl error reported. If you see a spike on 403 error, that could give us some details on what's been blocked.

As a final note: there's an high chance that attackers won't be listed inside your Google Analytics report. Google Analytics uses javascript to load and track visitor, so they have to use a browser in order to execute it correctly. Attackers send out "raw" HTTP requests, without using any real browser, so they won't trigger the Analytics code.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Thursday, 21 September 2017 17:17 CDT

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Edited by on 2017-09-21 17:17 CDT

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