https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/are-bots-and-spiders-excluded-from-form-views-data Gravity Support Forums Topic: Are bots and spiders excluded from form views data? en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:23:48 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/are-bots-and-spiders-excluded-from-form-views-data#post-163540 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:59:03 +0000 David Peralty 163540@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>There is no exclusion system for form views yet. It is on our list of future features. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/are-bots-and-spiders-excluded-from-form-views-data#post-163526 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:51:21 +0000 Mochajen 163526@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Is there any way to exclude the views of the logged in admin or of our i.p. address to make sure our own traffic is excluded? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/are-bots-and-spiders-excluded-from-form-views-data#post-76897 Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:52:26 +0000 GlennSibley 76897@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Dear Suzanne - </p> <p>I am not positive what bots are giving you problems, but this happens to many FORM fields by nasty spammer bots * spiders, etc. One of the best ways to combat this on many of our clients sites is to use your HTACCESS to block the nasty unconfirmed bots from exploring your forms and site in general. While we do also write specific Blacklists, one of my favorite I tell people to use it the 5G Blacklist. Below - I have added a sample TXT we suggest to our clients it also has a special WordPress related module in it.<br /> <a href="http://pastie.org/pastes/4780931/text" rel="nofollow">http://pastie.org/pastes/4780931/text</a></p> <p>I hope it helps, it should! :) </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/are-bots-and-spiders-excluded-from-form-views-data#post-76109 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:31:20 +0000 Chris Hajer 76109@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We can move it to feature requests. I'm not sure of the reason, although maintaining a list of bots and spiders to exclude could be a full time job. The views in the form entry view are not a truly accurate metric. For tracking views and conversions you should use a dedicated service, like Google Analytics or equivalent. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/are-bots-and-spiders-excluded-from-form-views-data#post-76100 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:29:18 +0000 Suzanne 76100@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks for the info Chris. Good to know. Was there a reason for leaving a bot view in the data? Or is this maybe something to request for an update? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/are-bots-and-spiders-excluded-from-form-views-data#post-75241 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:12:22 +0000 Chris Hajer 75241@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Gravity Forms does not exclude bot and spider traffic from form views. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/are-bots-and-spiders-excluded-from-form-views-data#post-75001 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:32:25 +0000 Suzanne 75001@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>My client is asking me why his form views are so high. We load a form in the sidebar on every page of his site so we expect a form view for every page hit, but he's had 15 site visitors since we cleared his view data and there have been over 600 form views. That would mean each of those 15 people hit over 40 pages which just is not possible. He's asking me if GF is differentiating between real visitors and bots from search engines. </p>