[Question] How to filter crawlers/spiders from the unique visitors per day count ?

[guirip]

Hello 👋

I've been using goaccess for a couple of months to generate daily reports from a cron job, and I really enjoy it. Congrats for the great job 👍

I want to monitor the average real (human) visitors amount coming to a website everyday, and I am not interested in counting crawlers and spiders. If there a way to achieve this ? I've been looking for an answer in the documentation and in the github issues without success.

I suppose one way to manage this would be to filter them out from apache logs, but if I can do it at goaccess level it would be better.

In advance, thanks ✌

[allinurl]

Glad you found it useful! Your question is spot on — filtering is the way to go. Issue #117 will undoubtedly address your query more effectively, and it'll definitely make things easier than messing with data beforehand and feeding it into goaccess.

Don't forget that goaccess goes beyond merely trying to track human visitors. It's designed to provide a precise view of the server's performance in the analytics realm, which is where most of the issues tend to pop up. Exciting developments are on the horizon, so stay tuned! 😊

[guirip]

@allinurl Thanks for the quick answer 🙏 Just to be sure I understand it right, it is a work in progress ?

[allinurl]

@guirip that's correct, please keep an eye out for more updates!