James Royal-LawsonAug 11, 2023

On multiple, unrelated websites, using GA4 I'm spotting some strange data.

On a single day (different for each site), for a few hours , of page views for / by around 70-80 "users", evenly split between Windows, Chrome OS, Linux and Mac, and from a set of 40ish countries.

None of these views have any custom dimensions or anything that I'd expect from a "real" visit (with GA4 loaded via GTM on the actual site).

Anyone got any guesses as to what's going on?

#ga4 #analytics

Show threadThomas Svensson 🖖Aug 11, 2023
@Beantin a testing system that checks from different OSs. Different countries for latency.
Show threadJames Royal-LawsonAug 11, 2023
@tsvenson as far as I can tell none of this data is generated by an actual visit to the websites. It's sent directly to GA4.
Show threadThomas Svensson 🖖Aug 11, 2023
@Beantin weird! Someone pulling your leg 🤔
Show threadJames Royal-LawsonAug 11, 2023
@tsvenson hats off to them if they are! 6 different websites, even different unrelated clients.
Show threadThomas Svensson 🖖

@Beantin Knowing my brain, if I was you, it would slowly drive me nuts if I couldn't figure out what's going on.

Looking forward to updates about what you find out.

Aug 11, 2023 at 5:03pmWeb
Show threadJames Royal-LawsonAug 11, 2023
@tsvenson oh it's totally bugging me. What's bugging me most is that I just can't think of WHY anyone would do this. If I could get my head around the motivation, I could *probably* let it go
Show threadThomas Svensson 🖖Aug 11, 2023
@Beantin I feel with you. I so know the path you can't avoid going down now. Hope you figure it out soon(ish).