So I got involved in a quantity sum of traffic I am having redirected to my websites but need some input on drilling down on data. The story goes that it is completely visitor data anonymized and EU privacy compliant across the board…..I get IPs on my backend server stat and they track as TOR proxies as a whole and read direct but of course the TOR data is not actual visitor. Claim is EU, CA, US visitors I am also told some is categorically matched or keyword and social and search platform driven. What can I readily do to break past the anonymity to drill down to reality….claim is GA will tell truth….Thoughts??
I would not spend my time trying to crack TOR encryption and security. Instead, consider who is making the claims and what evidence they provide to back up these claims. Of course, the most important way to tell if the traffic is what it says it is will be through the actual conversions that you achieve with the traffic to your sites. That is the only "truth" that matters.
Not so much trying to circumnavigate TOR encryption as looking for knowledge from anyone as to whether any resources exist on a stats approach that will read the actual visitor data as opposed to the TOR data?? The providers claim is GA will do it but don’t have GA and not messing with it if a definite no….???
GA is actually quite good at telling the truth. I used to test and compare the server's analytics (raw logs) to GA and some country wide trackers used in my country and GA was quite accurate in detecting real people. Unless you sell some highly illegal stuff, no legal VPN or user will visit your site from TOR (it's way to slow). When I ran my porn site, I also had a dark web address (nothing illegal, just wanted the traffic), and I got traffic from TOR that was hard to count, like 4-5 visitors vs. 400.000
Interesting….nope nothing even above a PG content rating….this is bought traffic I am trying to test to supplement and is being sold as DIRECT and FULLY ANONYMIZED to be EU compliant but also as over 50% US/CA. A lot reverses by IP to TOR proxies so am curious if it is just a guy running a bot on a list of proxies to my sites or…???? Just looking for a program to break thru the proxy IPs if there really is a drill down to a true visitor IP. Thing is it often dies track thru to other pages which I know bots can do and stays on page……. If anybody has a program on site or server beyond basic server stats and wants 1000 to give me an answer….
DIRECT and FULLY ANONYMIZED is mambo jumbo .. bought traffic is never good/legit. You can send EU traffic to a site , you don't need to anonymize it first. They just say that to cover their tracks that they use a bot from tor to load your site. and as tor nodes are not that many, they can claim they've sent 1000000 users from 100 ips...
I certainly appreciate the input…I am not entirely or even partially new to this but have not quite seen any traffic read like this. As to TOR relays there are over 7000 known not even mentioning the unknown so it is possible with a daily cap anything less than that to have 24 hour uniques. I have to say that while I am hardcore on checking IPs; I have not checked every IP in a daily run or to see if repeats at appx same time daily to see if maybe a preloaded setup set to run daily.