Analytics Spam Blocker Plugin

For any website or business owner, having Matomo Analytics, Google Analytics and similar services are a vital tool to track your website performance. Unfortunately there are spam bots from many shady organizations that bounce off your website and give you false records in your analytics – This is called ‘referral spam’ or more commonly referrer spam. Analytics Spam Blocker prevents this kind of spam from ever reaching your website by blocking them at the server level leaving your analytics untouched. Easily add new domains that you find and receive weekly updates in the background with new domains as well. Stop those sites from affecting anyones website analytics today!

1. Navigate to Plugins > Add New in your dashboard.
2. Search for ‘Arnan’ in the plugin database and click install on the ‘Analytics Spam Blocker’ plugin.
3. Once installed activate the plugin and you’re ready to go.
4. Navigate to Tools > Analytics Spam Blocker in your dashboard to make reports.

1. 

   Dashboard

4.0 – June 21, 2024

• [new] Referral spam list from Matomo
• [new] Weekly update referrel spam list from Matomo
• [new] Check if domain already is blocked
• [change] Code cleanup
• [removed] Spamblocker API reporting

3.2 – 21 April, 2024

• Added 10 more domains to the default blocklist based on user reports
• Fixed Dashboard typos
• Updated API requests

3.1.2 – 17 April, 2023

• Added 3 more domains to the default blocklist based on user reports

3.1.1 – 5 February, 2023

• Typos in the dashboard
• Updated translation file

3.1 – 31 January, 2023

• Updated dashboard sections
• Updated support links
• Removed help tabs
• Removed unused icons

3.0.3 – 2 January, 2023

• Updated dashboard sections
• Updated support links
• Updated stats widget

3.0.2 – 21 December, 2022

• Fixed compatibility info
• Fixed support links

3.0.1 – 7 October, 2022

• Added 5 new domains to blocklist following user reports
• Updated support links

3.0 – 19 March, 2022

• All new plugin, familiar dashboard
• Local blocklists for immediate results
• Report new domains easier than ever
• Translation support
• Now uses Api3

2.9.6 – 25 January, 2021

• Happy New Year
• Added News&Update links

2.9.5 – 27 December, 2020

• Tested to work with WordPress 5.6
• [change] Dashboard tweaks
• [tweak] Better descriptions throughout the plugin

2.9.4 – 3 August, 2020

• Tested to work with WordPress 5.5
• [change] Dashboard tweaks
• [fix] Action link settings no longer opening in new tab

2.9.3 – 10 May, 2020

• [fix] Dashboard stats
• [fix] More reliable registration for new users
• [change] Dashboard tweaks

2.9.2 – 9 September, 2019

• [fix] Dashboard widgets showing properly
• [i18n] Updated translations

2.9.1 – 30 August, 2019

• [i18n] Updated translations

2.9 – 21 August, 2019

• [change] Updated dashboard
• [change] WordPress 5.2.2 compatibility
• [i18n] Updated translation implementation

2.8.1 – 16 June, 2019

• [change] Updated dashboard
• [fix] Wrong url in plugin links

2.8 – 4 May, 2019

• [fix] Server communication not working for some people
• [fix] Registration process more reliable
• [change] Updated dashboard

2.7.1 – 12 April, 2019

• [fix] Communication error with the server for some people

2.7 – 30 March, 2019

• [change] Updated dashboard
• [change] Various tweaks and improvements

2.6 – 11 December, 2018

• [change] WordPress 5.0 update
• [change] Insights in API stats
• [change] Updated dashboard
• [change] Uses APIv2

2.5 – 8 July, 2018

• [change] Compatibility update
• [change] Updated dashboard
• [change] More clear error displays if things go wrong

2.4.2 – 17 May, 2018

• [change] Compatibility update
• [change] Updated dashboard

= 2.4.1 – 12 December, 2017=
* [change] Re-arranged the dashboard
* [change] Improved compatibility with WordPress
* [change] Api updates

2.4 – 10 June, 2017

• [fix] Better field sanitizing to better deal with copy&paste behavior
• [fix] Better domain filtering
• [fix] Better email handling
• [fix] No more endless linebreaks in the .htaccess file
• [change] Dashboard tweaks

2.3 – 14 May, 2017

• [fix] Dashboard tweaks

2.2 – 19 April, 2017

• [fix] Dashboard tweaks

2.1.1 – 4 April, 2017

• [fix] Registration reminder shows up correctly

2.1 – 7 March, 2017

• [new] Review reminder
• [new] Registration reminder

2.0 – 3 March, 2017

• [new] Easily report referral spam domains
• [new] Dashboard page in Tools menu
• [new] Daily blocklist updates
• [change] Restructured the whole plugin

1.8.1 – 5 February, 2017

• Development taken over by Arnan de Gans