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Short version: traffic from a country you do not sell in, with no conversions, is almost always bots, not buyers.

Reddit r/analytics1w4 min read

Singapore shows up for this constantly because it is one of the largest data center hubs in the world. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Alibaba, and Tencent all run nodes there, so crawlers, scrapers, uptime monitors, and security scanners egress from Singapore IPs even when the operator sits somewhere else entirely. For a Shopify store or app listing, the usual suspects are: AI crawlers pulling your content for training or for live answers Competitor tools scraping your pricing, features, and copy Platform and SEO crawlers hitting your pages on a schedule Uptime and security scanners How I separate

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