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Analytics Spam Blocker

By Arnan de Gans

Analytics & Reporting / Traffic & Visitor Analytics

Analytics Spam Blocker Review - In-Depth Analysis

Block referrer spam to keep your website analytics accurate. Manage a blocklist easily and receive weekly updates on new domains.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.7/10

User Rating

3.9/5 (based on 14+ reviews)

Active Installations

800+

Update Frequency

Below Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

1 / 10 (Very Low Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

Installing Analytics Spam Blocker is almost a must-have for any WordPress or ClassicPress website that collects visitor analytics with something like Matomo Analytics, Google Analytics or similar services. Accurate analytics are often a vital tool to track your website's performance or just to see how many visitors you get.

Unfortunately, there are lots of spambots from every shady corner of the internet that bounce off your website and give you false records in your analytics - This is called 'referral spam' or 'referrer spam'.

Analytics Spam Blocker helps prevent this kind of spam from ever reaching your website by blocking them at the server level, leaving your analytics untouched.

With Analytics Spam Blocker, you can easily add new domains that you find and you'll receive weekly updates in the background with new domains as well. Stop those sites from affecting your website analytics today!

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Analytics Spam Blocker plugin.

Analytics

Antispam

Referral Spam

Referrer Spam

Spam

Screenshots

FAQ

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.