Store owners are experiencing unusually high traffic from Ashburn, VA and Boydton, VA in their analytics, with some reporting these locations accounting for 15% or more of total visits. This traffic originates from Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers located in these Virginia cities.
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I have been getting a lot of Ashburn location visits. Usually it is only under 20 daily visits.
Out of 98 visits 83 are all same location today.
Several pages of store pages, returns etc. Is there something wrong?
I have heard this is Shopify checking but I don’t understand why this many.
Install the Lucky Orange Heatmaps app for your store and watch this user in real-time. See what it does on your site. Maybe your site just copies another dropshipper seller 
Hello @Tigbuls
Can you share your website URL so that I can check the SEO for it and provide you the solution ?
Can you check in Google Analytics from where the traffic is coming. Also check your Google Search Console for the keywords you are getting traffic.
I’m currently not getting any hits lately. I will have to dig deeper into it.
I am not running any ads currently. I have to see what needs fixing. Thank You!
Me too. Did you find out why?
No, I have not.
Hey @Tigbuls ,
It’s possible traffic from Ashburn, VA are coming from Amazon AWS servers. In that case you’d want to set up filters to block that data from showing.
Thanks so much!
How would you do that?
Hi Brandonsady
I have had over 1400 today alone! Could you expand on how to do your solution?
Many thanks
Sandra Mitchell
I ended up getting Negate Bot Protection App On Shopify. Now I have less of there traffic, but still get some.
Did anyone come up with a solution that does not cost additional money?
The reply from Shopify support. My Ashburn visits have slowed down since I contacted Shopify. but I do still have them, more so while advertising paid ads.
This is actually a common issue, and can be explained due to the location of the Amazon’s Web Service (AWS) servers. Ashburton, VA is the home to these servers which a lot of web services run off of, which is why you’re seeing a spike in traffic come from this location - the bot traffic is running off these servers. There’s no one service at fault, it’s the entire server. Bot traffic can show up in the Sales over time report, and I know this may not be the answer that you want to hear but it’s not possible to remove or stop this traffic from appearing in your Analytics. The best solution for those seeing this type of traffic is to set up filters to remove these sessions so that you just see the traffic that’s relevant to your business.
In order to clear up these results you can set up a filter in your Analytics > Reports by clicking Manage filters and set the filter as follows or seing on the attached video here<>:
How do you block that data? I’ve gotten a lot of store visits from Boydton, VA… like more than half of my store visits. I’m a small business and this is killing my analysis. This is what sent me down this rabbit hole to this post.
bro you need to step up that website even maybe spend some money on a good theme or buy one from etsy they cost like 15 bucks
I do too, all day long, all evening long. Boydton Va. Any solutions? Thanks!
also curious. analytics killer, time waster, bot-TECH driven onslaught, fortunately creating problems to wring even more income out of small business owners in the USA, and line Bezos’ pockets with more cash to launch his big pink rocket into space, with Katy Perry.
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