False Link Count

[Suksham-sharma]

Sending link via twitter , increases the count even when the link isn't opened by any person .

It gives false analytics .

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ENG-1014 False Link Count

[sanidhyarathore]

Can I take this up?

[steven-tey]

can you give me an example of a link for this so I can repro and investigate?

[Suksham-sharma]

@steven-tey , Sure , I tried to reproduce it , i generally happens , when you shorten a link and send it via , twitter / linkedin , you get a click , most prolly via bots trying to check if that link contains anything harmful or not . Which results in click getting add , even when no such action has taken place . Resulting in false analytics .

[steven-tey]

@Suksham-sharma We do exclude bot clicks from analytics - can you please let me know an example of a link that has this issue so I can make sure there are no bots that are missed?

[Suksham-sharma]

@steven-tey , when i went through the codebase , i also noticed that bot clicks are ignored , but somehow they are being missed .

Attaching a sample created link for reference.

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