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How can I tell the difference between legitimate organic traffic spikes and automated bot traffic when doing a weekly audit of our GA4 property?
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How can I tell the difference between legitimate organic traffic spikes and automated bot traffic when doing a weekly audit of our GA4 property?
2 real searches · 1 real-search pass
Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
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Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 2 of 2 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.
Searches and sources
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Google Analytics 4 identify bot traffic automated traffic invalid traffic official documentation bot filtering Google Analytics Google ↗
Google Search Console performance report clicks impressions documentation GA4 traffic quality engagement metrics Google ↗
- Using Search Console and Google Analytics Data for SEO | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers · developers.google.com
- How are you performing on Google? · support.google.com
- Known bot-traffic exclusion · support.google.com
Queries
2 queries · click a column to sort
| Query / type | Search | Intent | Query class | Routing format | Cluster | Freq ↓ | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Google Analytics 4 identify bot traffic automated traffic invalid traffic official documentation bot filtering Google Analytics OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
Google Search Console performance report clicks impressions documentation GA4 traffic quality engagement metrics OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 |