By thebrotherofasis on

Hello,

For some time now I have been tracking my logs reports, and I see that an anonymous user? bot? is consistently trying to access my page, at an in-existing address.

The problem is no matter where I've tried to look at the source of the access, I haven't been able to find it. It says anonymous.

As a consequence, all the stats are being biased, and the picture at Google Analytics is changing dramatically.

I would like to know if there is a possible way for me to prevent an external source from trying to access a page, to stop showing crazy 404 reports, which change the whole thing with my statistics and market research.

Thank you for your help.

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les lim
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a couple things: first, Admin > User management > Access Rules allows you to ban IP addresses. It's not a perfect solution, but it can help a little.

Otherwise, you could find a way to prevent the Google Analytics script from runing on 404 Not Found pages. It'll depend on whether you're using a module to insert the script into pages or if you've placed the code directly into your theme's page.tpl.php files.