Displaying robots in Yandex Metrica
Robots are programs that crawl the site for a specific purpose. For example, for indexing a site or checking how it works. Some robots introduce themselves, while others, on the contrary, try to disguise themselves as a real user so that analytical systems do not detect them. Yandex Metrica identifies robots based on behavioral factors and other technical signals.
Website visits from addresses that aren’t specified in the Address and Additional Address fields under the tag settings may also be considered robot sessions.
Filtering out robot traffic in Yandex Metrica reports helps you get accurate metric values. For example, bounce rate, time on site, and page depth.
How to understand which robots visit the site
Note
If robot filtering by behavior is enabled in the tag settings, additional robot filtering settings are not available. You can view the robot activity in the Robots report.
You can use behavior-based robot filtering if you use Yandex Metrica API Logs and need unaggregated data without bots. In other cases, change the data display mode in reports as described below.
Robots that have introduced themselves (their User-agent is known) are immediately excluded from the statistical data. You can view them in the Robots report. It will help you determine, for example, whether search robots come to the site to index pages. See How to check that a robot belongs to Yandex.
By default, the statistics include the sessions of robots identified by their behavior. To exclude robot sessions from the report, configure segmentation.
How to filter out robot sessions with the Yandex Metrica API
How to compare statistics with and without robot data
To compare statistics, in the report in the Data: without robots setting, select Compare with data with robots. This way you can see how robots affect your site. For example, robots may be the reason for a decrease in page depth and an increase in bounce rates.
How to exclude robot sessions
From the report
There are two ways to exclude robot sessions from the report:
From the widget
To exclude robot sessions from the widget, use one of the following options:
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Create a new report with a segment excluding robots and add it to the dashboard.
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Create a segment without robots and use it when editing the widget.
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