Mozilla Compatible Agent

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I'm using Google Analytics and i have a problem with Mozilla Compatible Agent - see the screenshot: enter image description here

This is a screenshot of the Mozilla Compatible Agent with "Cities" as second Dimension. The problem is, that i'm very sure, that the MCA coming from Ashburn is a "crawler" or "bot" (I'm sure because it visits the site in a certain interval and then leaves it very fast - and it only visits the sites that are in my sitemap.xml). I really want to filter this out because this is messing my statistics. What can i do? I don't want to filter out the complete MCA - only the one coming from Ashburn - any ideas?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:33

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For filtering out Ashburn's visitors, create a new segment with that browser and city as negative parameters. So it would be an "all visitors except these" segment. Then activate it in your reports.

But I think you should do more research before doing that.

Do you think all the hits from Ashburn are spammy? Try to add second dimensions to Location report. Look at source/medium, referral, hours, and organic search keyword (lot of times spammer bots access to your site with spammy keywords). Look at your server logs. There's a chance you can isolate that spammer bot and then filter it out in a cleaner way.

Look also at these two threads: How to block google analytics spam from hulfingtonpost.com? How to fight off Google Analytics referrer spammers?

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:33

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answered May 17 '15 at 13:29

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Thanks a lot for your good answer! I will try it out tomorrow and and report you :) – Fabian Lurz May 17 '15 at 15:34
I worked it out and i use a more specific filter now :) – Fabian Lurz May 20 '15 at 19:17
Good. How did you identify it? – lucgenti May 20 '15 at 19:58

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