Thanks again to everyone who came out to our Developers meetup on Thursday night. Despite the absence of Ben and Andy for this one, we managed to cover a couple of interesting topics that I hope you found helpful. Google Analytics and filtering out Spammy Results. When reading reports in Google Analytics you’ll probably notice that you’re getting a lot of traffic from websites like: floating-share-buttons.com get-free-social-traffic.com buttons-for-website.com darodar.com chinese-amezon.com and a whole lot more that you’ve never heard of. Check out this screenshot of some of the traffic that is being reported on a website of a local commercial design firm At quick glance you might say, 1091 sessions isn’t that bad for local commercial design firm, unfortunately all of this referral traffic (including the 633 sessions from floating-share-buttons.com) are spoofed results created by robots who are simply submitting information packets to google’s servers using your analytics ID. Why the hell would they do that?! I’ve found that there are different