This plugin blocks spam sites like semalt.com and buttons-for-website.com from reaching your website and affecting your Google Analytics statistics.
For any website or business owner, having Matomo Analytics, Google Analytics and similar services are a vital tool to track your website performance. Unfortunately there are spam bots from many shady organizations that bounce off your website and give you false records in your analytics – This is called referral spam or more commonly referrer spam. Analytics Spam Blocker prevents referrer spam from ever reaching your website by blocking them at the server level leaving your analytics untouched. Easily report new domains you find to our free API for regular updates of the blocklist. Stop those sites from affecting anyones website analytics today!
Help make Analytics Spam Blocker better and report referrer spam domains via the reporting tool in Analytics Spam Blocker, you can access the dashboard page in the Tools menu of the WordPress dashboard.
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How does this work?
Analytics Spam Blocker adds a list of domains to be blocked to your .htaccess file. This list is regularly updated next to what you add yourself so you’ll be able to filter out the majority of referrer spam very quickly.
Why do I need a subscription?
You don’t, older versions required a free subscribtion though. Update to version 3 or newer to see the new system.
How does the list get updated?
I’ve developed a unique reporting system where you can easily report suspicious domains. If the domain gets reported a few times by different people it will be included in the blocklist.
Who manages the blocklist updates?
In a way, you do. By reporting new domains. However the system is mostly automated after you send your report. The blocklist service is governed and provided by Arnan de Gans.
I need help with this plugin
Check out the Support Forum.
This is cool, do you have more plugins?
Yep, check out my website AJdG Solutions.
ChangeLog
3.2 – 21 April, 2024
- Added 10 more domains to the default blocklist based on user reports
- Fixed Dashboard typos
- Updated API requests
3.1.2 – 17 April, 2023
- Added 3 more domains to the default blocklist based on user reports
3.1.1 – 5 February, 2023
- Typos in the dashboard
- Updated translation file
3.1 – 31 January, 2023
- Updated dashboard sections
- Updated support links
- Removed help tabs
- Removed unused icons
3.0.3 – 2 January, 2023
- Updated dashboard sections
- Updated support links
- Updated stats widget
3.0.2 – 21 December, 2022
- Fixed compatibility info
- Fixed support links
3.0.1 – 7 October, 2022
- Added 5 new domains to blocklist following user reports
- Updated support links
3.0 – 19 March, 2022
- All new plugin, familiar dashboard
- Local blocklists for immediate results
- Report new domains easier than ever
- Translation support
- Now uses Api3
2.9.6 – 25 January, 2021
- Happy New Year
- Added News&Update links
2.9.5 – 27 December, 2020
- Tested to work with WordPress 5.6
- [change] Dashboard tweaks
- [tweak] Better descriptions throughout the plugin
2.9.4 – 3 August, 2020
- Tested to work with WordPress 5.5
- [change] Dashboard tweaks
- [fix] Action link settings no longer opening in new tab
2.9.3 – 10 May, 2020
- [fix] Dashboard stats
- [fix] More reliable registration for new users
- [change] Dashboard tweaks
2.9.2 – 9 September, 2019
- [fix] Dashboard widgets showing properly
- [i18n] Updated translations
2.9.1 – 30 August, 2019
- [i18n] Updated translations
2.9 – 21 August, 2019
- [change] Updated dashboard
- [change] WordPress 5.2.2 compatibility
- [i18n] Updated translation implementation
2.8.1 – 16 June, 2019
- [change] Updated dashboard
- [fix] Wrong url in plugin links
2.8 – 4 May, 2019
- [fix] Server communication not working for some people
- [fix] Registration process more reliable
- [change] Updated dashboard
2.7.1 – 12 April, 2019
- [fix] Communication error with the server for some people
2.7 – 30 March, 2019
- [change] Updated dashboard
- [change] Various tweaks and improvements
2.6 – 11 December, 2018
- [change] WordPress 5.0 update
- [change] Insights in API stats
- [change] Updated dashboard
- [change] Uses APIv2
2.5 – 8 July, 2018
- [change] Compatibility update
- [change] Updated dashboard
- [change] More clear error displays if things go wrong
2.4.2 – 17 May, 2018
- [change] Compatibility update
- [change] Updated dashboard
= 2.4.1 – 12 December, 2017=
* [change] Re-arranged the dashboard
* [change] Improved compatibility with WordPress
* [change] Api updates
2.4 – 10 June, 2017
- [fix] Better field sanitizing to better deal with copy&paste behavior
- [fix] Better domain filtering
- [fix] Better email handling
- [fix] No more endless linebreaks in the .htaccess file
- [change] Dashboard tweaks
2.3 – 14 May, 2017
2.2 – 19 April, 2017
2.1.1 – 4 April, 2017
- [fix] Registration reminder shows up correctly
2.1 – 7 March, 2017
- [new] Review reminder
- [new] Registration reminder
2.0 – 3 March, 2017
- [new] Easily report referral spam domains
- [new] Dashboard page in Tools menu
- [new] Daily blocklist updates
- [change] Restructured the whole plugin
1.8.1 – 5 February, 2017
- Development taken over by Arnan de Gans
