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> By nature it won't filter out bots, however. I have two questions about this: - Since you know they are bots, why couldn't you filter them? - On the other

• scrollaway 5y ago
  > Since you know they are bots, why couldn't you filter them? A decent amount can be filtered by UA. This is inconvenient because UA is a very large piece to log and index on, so you need to do UA processing to do anything useful with it and … well by that point it just becomes a chore and I suspect there's good logging services that do this better than you'd spend your time doing yourself. > On the other hand, couldn't there be bots that run JavaScript which would be tracked client-side? They exist but they're more rare by nature, because running JS at bot scale is expensive.
  • dschooh 5y ago
    > well by that point it just becomes a chore and I suspect there's good logging services that do this better than you'd spend your time doing yourself. Which is why the OP suggested using tools like goaccess.