Is there a way to stop bots from flooding the stats?

[movieseals]

Hello everyone.  I get a crazy amount of bots that do not seem to be blocked by the excellent blackhole plugin from Datakick.  I also used a free PS plugin, byebyebots which is supposed to block all bots from being registered in connections but it works with user agents.
Recently, I have been flooded with 'visitors' which all have similar ip's (see attachment) and it is so ridiculous as to render the stat module quite frankly useless.  I do not need an exact numbering but these bots activity is intense.

I used to use the Analytics, but it is cumbersome and somewhat affected by bots, though on a lesser extent.

Matomo was nice but for some reason is highly untable with my system - I might go back to that with 1.5 when I finish testing but just curious if there is something people do to have the stats module somewhat usable.

 

Edited October 31, 2023 by movieseals
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[the.rampage.rado]

If they don't cause your site to reach it's limits and don't make a mess in your BO (like making carts, spamming, etc) I would suggest to simply clear the connections table regularly. This will also speed up your site if the table is very big.

[datakick]

It really depends on what kind of bot that is.

It can indeed be some regular bot - if that's the case, then update to 1.5 may help a little. This version contains up-to-date database of know bots (https://github.com/JayBizzle/Crawler-Detect) and ignores request from them.

More likely though, this is some sort of hacking attempt. 

[Beeta]

same issue here:

 

they slow down the website, I'm getting up to 600 at the same time.

I already have Blackhole for Bad Bots v1.0.1 - by DataKick installed and active.

Edited November 15, 2023 by Beeta

[nickz]

Here is a not proven tutorial:

https://chemicloud.com/kb/article/block-bad-bots-and-spiders-using-htaccess/