Metadata
- Author: Carlos Escalera Alonso
- Full Title:: Filtering Referral Spam in Google Analytics 4
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Google Analytics,
- URL:: https://carloseo.com/removing-google-analytics-spam/
- Finished date:: 2024-05-20
Highlights
For a while, this was the only type of spam getting to GA4. It uses crawlers/bots that leave a referral URL as they pass through the website. This type of spam requires more resources to deploy by the spammer therefore it isn’t a big problem unless you are directly targeted. (View Highlight)