Suspicious traffic
Flags bursts of likely fake traffic, such as one source or country with every visit bouncing in seconds, and lets you view your stats without it.
What it does
A Suspicious traffic card on your dashboard. It lists each day where one source or country suddenly brought far more visitors than usual and nearly all of them left after one page within seconds, with a View without it button.
Why it matters
Referral spam and cheap traffic bots can double a day’s visitors and wreck your bounce rate and conversion rate. Seeing the burst, and your numbers without it, keeps decisions based on real people.
How to use it
- Open your dashboard on a 7, 30 or 90-day range and find Suspicious traffic. With no bursts it simply says so.
- For each flagged day, read the source or country, how many visitors it brought against its usual day, and how many left after one page within 5 seconds.
- Tap View without it to see your stats with a referrer or country filter, then save that view as a segment if the traffic is fake.
How it works
- When you open the dashboard, pageviews in the range are folded into daily totals per source and per country inside the database.
- For each source and country, its usual day is the median of the other days in the range (days with none count as 0).
- A day is flagged when it brings at least 15 visitors, 4 times or more its usual day, and 85% or more of them saw one page and left within 5 seconds (or with no engagement time).
- View without it opens your dashboard with a “referrer is not” or “country is not” filter. Save it as a segment to keep it one tap away.
Privacy
- Collected: Nothing new: it reads the pageview totals you already have
- Collected: No visitor-level data is shown, only totals per day, source and country
- No cookies, and nothing stored on the visitor’s device.
- Reports show totals only: never a visitor list, IP address or single visit.
Limits
- 0 script bytes, 0 rows written
- Ranges up to 92 days (7, 30 and 90-day views); hidden when a filter is on
- Heuristic: a real viral spike from a single page can look similar, so check the source before excluding it
- Known bots are already dropped by the collector before counting
- Rows: 1 read per dashboard view over the range’s pageviews
Plans
Every plan, including Free. quietstats is free during launch: the Free plan covers 1 site and 5,000 pageviews a month, and no card is needed. See pricing.
Questions
Does View without it delete anything?
No. It is a filter on your view. Your data stays as it is, and you can remove the filter at any time.
Why only 15+ visitors?
Small sites see random swings every day. The minimum keeps the card quiet unless a burst is big enough to move your numbers.
Can it block the traffic?
Not yet. It shows the burst and your stats without it. Known bots are already blocked by the collector.