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…

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 …

It’s annoying to say at the least. I agree with you it disturbs your insights. I wonder why no Shopify insider ever responded on this item, solving it. Can these visits - if essential - take place in the background. Are they needed, and in these quantities, every couple of hours a series ? I wonder. …

Well then something is really wrong with my website, since it was visited 119 times in 1 day. Im not sure if i should be concerned. Especially since our site went public yesterday night!

As you can see, there is no solution offered yet. Dozens of Council Bluff visits a day, still.

Same issue as the rest of you. My store has 524 visits from Council Bluffs in the last month. Ridiculous. I’m a first time Spotify user and am really disappointed with this aspect of their service. My analytics are more difficult to use with this, having to constantly account for these useless visit…

I am having the same issue, My store has 527 visits from Council Bluff very similar to yours and I am a new store, I wonder if Shopify is aware of this issue, hoping its just a bug

Hi all - has Council Bluffs now been changed to Forest City? Seeing lots of users from Forest City - WTF?

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

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Thanks, but that is so dismotivating, since i have had 100 people on my page in total and 96 are from Iowa/Council Bluffs

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

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