: 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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