How to Efficiently Filter Spam, Bots, & Other Junk Traffic in Google Analytics – Carlos Escalera – Moz

How to Efficiently Filter Spam, Bots, & Other Junk Traffic in Google Analytics – Carlos Escalera – Moz

There is no doubt that Google Analytics is one of the most important tools you could use to understand your users’ behavior and measure the performance of your site. There’s a reason it’s used by millions across the world.

But despite being such an essential part of the decision-making process for many businesses and blogs, I often find sites (of all sizes) that do little or no data filtering after installing the tracking code, which is a huge mistake.

Think of a Google Analytics property without filtered data as one of those styrofoam cakes with edible parts. It may seem genuine from the top, and it may even feel right when you cut a slice, but as you go deeper and deeper you find that much of it is artificial…

Read more here: How to Efficiently Filter Spam, Bots, & Other Junk Traffic in Google Analytics – Moz.