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exclude bots from Matomo analytics#713

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@jsnshrmn jsnshrmn commented May 14, 2021

Description

Adds more user agents to the bot list and filters all bot traffic out from matomo analyitcs

Rationale

We're trying to improve the signal:noise ratio in matomo

Phabricator Ticket

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282714

How Has This Been Tested?

I verified that this works locally by connecting my dev environment to matomo and setting the user-agent string in curl.
I'll need to update the visitor segments in matomo, because the Bot and Not-Bot variables are used in those, but will no longer be populated.

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@jsnshrmn jsnshrmn changed the title Jason matomo botlist exclude python-requests from matomo's "not-bot" list May 14, 2021
@jsnshrmn jsnshrmn changed the title exclude python-requests from matomo's "not-bot" list exclude more bots from matomo's "not-bot" list May 14, 2021
@jsnshrmn jsnshrmn force-pushed the jason-matomo-botlist branch from 5854117 to 7d08808 Compare May 25, 2021 17:37
@jsnshrmn jsnshrmn changed the title exclude more bots from matomo's "not-bot" list exclude bots from Matomo analytics May 25, 2021
@jsnshrmn jsnshrmn requested a review from suecarmol May 25, 2021 18:03
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Thanks for this!

@suecarmol suecarmol merged commit 6af0fc4 into master May 26, 2021
@suecarmol suecarmol deleted the jason-matomo-botlist branch May 26, 2021 00:18
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