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…

Is anyone still getting the visits from Council Bluffs? Since my posts about these I haven’t had any visits from Council Bluffs, but I am getting hundreds of visits per month from Ashburn and Boardman. Today, 75% of the traffic to my site was from them. Again, I’ve done my research and I believe …

I had over 200 visits from here Iowa and was extremely confused and a little nervous so this makes me feel a lot safer! Thanks!

I have been getting fake orders on my site, which do not go through all the way, they stay in my abandoned cart and it is only for the same item over and over again. I got do annoyed that I adjusted the stock of that item to 0 so that they cannot add it to their cart. So annoyed! The credit card the…

Hello Shopify, this isn’t an acceptable solution as 3 may not be a lot but we’re getting thousands of visits from Iowa, we’re a Canadian brand, we’ve reached out to your customer support and they said you filter bots. But it doesn’t make sense getting thousands of visits from one state and no partic…

Just during Jan 2023 I’ve already had 147 visits from Council Bluff. I’m a micro art business, I just launched Dec 1. This is absolutely absurd! @Shopify_77 can you please help small businesses manage their operations and prevent this from continuing?

Selling sterling silver jewelry too. I’m based in New York City.

I get council bluffs visits everyday, around 40 a day. So annoying

I got about a dozen in the last couple of hours … have been tweaking little bits of code during this time …could it be somehow related to that ? When you save your changes maybe it alerts some kind of bot to recheck your site ? Extremely annoying as cant use Statcounter data properly …

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

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We’re getting thousands of council bluffs apparently over 1000 sessions coming from iowa

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

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