Bot Block – Stop Spam Referrals in Google Analytics

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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10 of the last 12 four- and five-star reviews came from accounts created within a month of posting the review, and 6 of those landed between 2015-07-27 and 2015-08-07.

Registering a wp.org account just to leave a review is common and often entirely legitimate. The share here is unusually high for the sample, so it's worth keeping in mind while reading the reviews.

1. ★★★★★ Jeff Rudd

   9.9y ago

   I would give this a zero rating if that was available. Found it COMPLETELY useless in getting rid of www1.free-share-buttons.top

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2. ★★★★★ Gulshan Kumar

   10.0y ago

   I liked this plugin and I proudly recommend to everyone.

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3. ★★★★★ sitenista

   10.3y ago

   Downloaded this plugin as my referral report in analytics was completely distorted by referral spam, after downloading the plugin and following the two step process on the plugin page I saw that a lot of the spam traffic was disappearing from my report, which was great however the one site I wanted to get rid of most (the reason I downloaded the plugin in the first place) is still appearing on my reports ‘Rank-checker.online’ I turned to the support page for help however the response is so far non existent, I would just love some help on this really as the software can clearly do the job on the other referee’s.

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4. ★★★★★ Fairy-Rider

   10.5y ago

   With this plugin is can really block bots that were spamming my analytics. Now I can protect my site from these potentially unwanted clickbots, brute-force attacks, and other spambots. That can also block spamdexers too.

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5. ★★★★★ beyondthescene

   10.5y ago

   Sweet plugin, thanks.

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6. ★★★★★ toricksshoes

   10.5y ago

   Very useful plugin, my analytics was getting overrun with spam – I even had more spam traffic than genuine traffic at one point 🙁 Now the spam is no more!

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7. ★★★★★ stephenhutchie

   10.5y ago

   So happy with this plugin, love the stats and the video showing you how to setup the filter… bye spam.

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8. ★★★★★ tayfunozer

   10.7y ago

   işe yarıyor. güzel eklenti

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

1. Medium · 4.4 Bot Block &#8211; Stop Spam Referrals in Google Analytics <= 2.6 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-09-22 CVE-2025-57935 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.6 No patch available

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-08-08 600+ → 500+ down after 2 days in tier
2. 2026-08-06 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-08-05 600+ → 500+ down after 2 days in tier
4. 2026-08-03 500+ → 600+ up after 3 days in tier
5. 2026-07-31 600+ → 500+ down after 132 days in tier
6. 2026-03-21 700+ → 600+ down after 101 days in tier
7. 2025-12-10 800+ → 700+ down after 8 days in tier
8. 2025-12-02 900+ → 800+ down after 129 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• GA Google Analytics – Connect Google Analytics to WordPress 400K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
• SEO Friendly Images 20K+ installs · 3.2★ · 2 shared tags F
• SEO Ultimate 10K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags D
• HT Easy GA4 – Google Analytics WordPress Plugin 6K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A
• WP Google Analytics Events – No-Code Custom Event Tracking for Google Analytics 5K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags D
• ReCrawler 4K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A

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Bot Block – Stop Spam Referrals in Google Analytics: 500+ active installs, 4.2★ (17 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/bot-block-stop-spam-google-analytics-referrals