Traffic from a curtain country while the webshop is in another country

Topic summary

A Netherlands-based webshop is experiencing approximately 1,500 daily sessions from Sydney, Australia that appear to be automated rather than genuine traffic.

Key characteristics:

  • Traffic appears across all pages
  • Shows low engagement metrics
  • Visible in Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

User’s concern: The traffic pattern suggests automated pinging or bot activity rather than real visitors.

Question posed: Seeking information about potential Shopify plugins that might cause this behavior, or methods to identify and block this suspicious traffic.

Status: No responses yet; the issue remains unresolved and the user is awaiting guidance on diagnosis and mitigation strategies.

Summarized with AI on November 1. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

Hi, I have a webshop in the Netherlands en we receive a lot of traffic from Australia - Sydney. Im absolutely sure that it’s not ‘real’ traffic. It’s daily traffic around 1500 sessions. It looks like a curtain system that is pinging our website. The sessions are on all pages, but with low engagement. Is there a known plugin within shopify who can do this or anything I can look into to see how I can stop this traffic. It shows in ga4.

Thanks