Search “Singapore bot traffic” and you’ll land on a Google Analytics community thread that’s become a rite of passage: a site owner watching GA4’s real-time report fill up with hundreds of “users” from Singapore, out of nowhere, and asking the two questions everyone asks next — is this ghost spam, or an actual bot attack, and either way, how do I make it stop? That distinction matters more than it looks. Ghost spam never touches your site at all — it’s a fake hit fired straight at your GA measurement ID, so your real server or CDN logs show nothing unusual, and no firewall rule will fix it (you need a GA-side hostname filter instead). Real bot traffic actually requests your pages, which means it shows up in your own logs too — and that’s the case a firewall can do something about. ...