Bot traffic in analytics

Block the China and Singapore bot traffic

The spike in your analytics is automated Chrome on cloud servers. IPScanner shows how many visits were bots, then blocks them at the front of your site.

Real visitors from those countries keep accessVerified crawlers always pass

Users by country

Example site, last 30 days

  • Singapore1,412 cloud bots blocked38
  • China598 cloud bots blocked42
  • United States296
  • Germany60
  • United Kingdom45
  • India39
Tencent, Alibaba and Huawei Cloud blocked. People and crawlers allowed.

Where it comes from

Automated Chrome on cloud servers

Rented servers in Singapore and China load your pages in a real browser, so your analytics counts each one as a visitor.

  • 1,440 of 1,450

    "Singapore" visits to our own site in a month ran Chrome on Windows with no referrer.

    ipscanner.io, Cloudflare Web Analytics, 15 Sep to 15 Oct 2026

  • 81.8%

    of requests from Singapore IP addresses are bots, against 38.9% worldwide.

    Cloudflare Radar, 17 Sep to 15 Oct 2026

  • About 41%

    of that Singapore bot traffic comes from Chinese clouds: Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei and BytePlus.

    Cloudflare Radar, same period

Your options

What each fix actually does

Most advice hides the data in reports. Only a check at the front of your site stops the visit.

  • Cloud bots that load your pages

    GA4 report filter
    Hidden in reports, still on your site
    GA4 hostname filter
    Not stopped
    Cloudflare country rule
    Blocked, with everyone else there
    IPScanner
    Blocked before analytics loads
  • Real visitors from China and Singapore

    GA4 report filter
    Hidden in reports too
    GA4 hostname filter
    Kept
    Cloudflare country rule
    Blocked
    IPScanner
    Kept
  • Hits sent straight to GA4

    GA4 report filter
    Hidden in reports
    GA4 hostname filter
    Filtered
    Cloudflare country rule
    Not stopped
    IPScanner
    Not stopped: use the hostname filter

Monitor first

See what it would block before it blocks anything

Every site starts in monitor mode. Watch real traffic for a week, then switch to enforce when the numbers look right.

shop.example.com

MonitorEnforce
TorWould block

Questions

China and Singapore bot traffic FAQ

Most of it is automated Chrome on cloud servers in those countries, from networks such as Tencent Cloud, Alibaba Cloud and Huawei Cloud. On our own site, 1,440 of 1,450 "Singapore" visits in a month ran Chrome on Windows with no referrer.

See your bot count this week

Monitor mode shows how many visits it would block. Blocking starts on Starter at $19 a month.

    China and Singapore Bot Traffic in GA4 | IPScanner