Hi all on a daily basis we are getting 3 visits from this city in the US and this has been happening over a couple of months. I have tried to figure out what organisation is out there with no success and wondered whether anyone else has witnessed the same ?

Hi, I have been doing some research and found out the cause, the Shopify Speed Report. You can find the topic here; https://community.shopify.com/post/908894 Shopify runs the speed report using a Google Developer tool (the Google data centre is based in Council Bluffs, USA) which tests 3 pages, Ho…

I just noticed that my 2nd highest visits are from this city, and I don’t have any connections there. I’ve never even heard of it! I did a google search and found your post. Wondering if there is some Shopify connection.

I have more visits from someone/ something in Council Bluffs, IA, than any other visitor, including myself. Every day, many visits from Council Bluffs. What is it exactly? Thank you, Roland

I have done some testing and found this is caused by Shopify’s new Site Speed Report feature. I have written more about it in the post here; https://community.shopify.com/post/908894 Make sure you contact Shopify Support and get them to change the feature if it is affecting you.

Agreed! The same thing is happening to our website with this traffic. It impossible to get great support from Shopify like the first five years of working on their platform. I guess I’ll pull this traffic and block from my Google Analytics account.

I have the same challenge to unfold, in the past 30 days I had 84 visits from Council Bluffs :thinking:

I am so glad I am not the only person seeing this. I get 3 visits a day from Council Bluffs around 1am

Thank you for all the great research on this topic. We did reach out to Shopify support and they told they would not turn it off at this time. We also do not have the option of changing how frequently it hits our site.

Yes, I found out the same thing just yesterday, I asked them to remove the Testing from my store and they said that was not possible at this time . So I guess I’m stuck with it.

Why are there daily visits from Council Bluffs on my site?

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I have only had Shopify since April and site visits from Council Bluffs come daily. I don’t know why, either and would like to know.

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