New free plugin filters bot data from Google Analytics

Google's own bot filtering catches only a small percentage of the bot traffic that hits most sites, leading to traffic analysis data being skewed. Bot detection specialist Distil Networks is launching a free tool designed to remove the bad data created by bots. Bots can be used by competitors, hackers and fraudsters and are the key culprits behind web scraping, brute force attacks, competitive data mining, online fraud, account hijacking, data theft, spam, digital ad fraud and downtime. "Bot activity is so prevalent today, that if you run a website of any shape or size, there is a good chance… [Continue Reading]