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How to check if a site user is real (without every time showing him a captcha)?

I want to count page views and/or users on my site.

How to exclude bot (or otherwise fraudulent) views from the count?

I want to make it highly secure so that it would be very difficult to write a bot that significally tampers the statistics.

My ideas of solutions:

  • Use Google Analytics API (does it have such an API?)

  • Show captcha before showing the page (very disturning for user experience)

Solution

  • You can use ReCaptcha serverside and get user 'botness' scored. Simo Ahava has a great guide on implementing this.