Google & Analytics

TigersWay

Hi,
Helping a customer I discover that for the last 3/4 weeks, "Google" has been visiting 99% of page of a 1200 pages websites, hundred of times each day from all over the US... All these visits are of same type, linux desktop via chrome, same definition of screen, etc. And all from from IPs known to be from Google but no userAgent talking about bot or anything like that.
As anyone of you - following their own stats - has ever seen something like this?

ahnlak

Either Gemini, or some other scraping outfit using GCP.

somik

@TigersWay said:
Hi,
Helping a customer I discover that for the last 3/4 weeks, "Google" has been visiting 99% of page of a 1200 pages websites, hundred of times each day from all over the US... All these visits are of same type, linux desktop via chrome, same definition of screen, etc. And all from from IPs known to be from Google but no userAgent talking about bot or anything like that.
As anyone of you - following their own stats - has ever seen something like this?

Block the user agent or IPs and call it a day.

TigersWay

@somik said:

Block the user agent or IPs and call it a day.

Blocking Google for a "commercial" website, seems to be a pretty good idea, yes :

TigersWay

@ahnlak said:
Either Gemini, or some other scraping outfit using GCP.

Gemini hides itself?

DataRecovery

@TigersWay said: for the last 3/4 weeks, "Google" has been visiting 99% of page of a 1200 pages websites

I keep a detailed log of SSH login attempts for one of my VMs.
Not so long ago saw a couple of google IPs in the list. Didn't manage to dig deeper though.

tetech

See Google's help document, which lists the UA strings and has links to the IP ranges.
https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/verify-google-requests

Anything not on this list is GCP or similar and can be blocked.