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: Why is Coffeyville, Kansas sending large amounts of traffic in Google Analytics? I work for a UK-based digital-focused company. We have a few thousand US-based users but it is by no means

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I work for a UK-based digital-focused company.

We have a few thousand US-based users but it is by no means our primary region.

However, an excessively large amount of US traffic is supposedly coming from Coffeyville, Kansas - so much so that it is showing as the city with the most sessions worldwide.

Is there a specific reason that Coffeyville Kansas is over-represented? A cursory search suggests that Google has some history with Coffeyville (apparently it was once the default position on Google Maps API)

Is this a consequence of Google incorrectly ascertaining US users' city? Or is something more sinister at play (e.g. false referrals/spam)?



UPDATE:
I've dug deeper into the problem, and tried to look into some of the suggestions made here (thanks for the suggestions so far).

It turns out the 'Coffeyville' traffic is almost entirely referred from a content network/partner which drives primarily US traffic to our site. Consequently, the traffic has almost entirely occurred since June 2017, since the partnership began.

I've brought up the issue with the aforementioned partner and will update if they have any further information.

I do not yet have access to IP server logs, but will look into this if the partner can't shed light on the issue.

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@Yeniel560

Take a look at your server logs and see if you can find an IP address (or small range) that are sending a lot of hits your way. Try looking up the IPs in an online tool like ip-lookup.net which will give you a location and a domain or ISP the IP is associated with.

In your server logs the lines with those IPs should have a user-agent string (browser name). That may give you a clue what's happening, if for example it says "Googlebot". If not then try searching the IPs in Google itself to see if they belong to a well-known company.

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