Huge spike in traffic reported in Prestashop stats, not reflected in Google Analytics

[davekeller]

Hi there, 

 

Since I updated PrestaShop to 1.6.0.6 (I don't know if this is the cause, or just a coincidence) yesterday morning, the stats in PrestaShop are reporting a massive increase in traffic (500% increase).

 

Google analytics is not reporting this increase so I'm assuming it's a bot (that is not triggering the GA javascript tag).

 

Does anyone know how I might see where the traffic is coming from, IP address for example? At the moment all I can see PrestaShop in the origin ("Direct link").

 

Do I have to "Save direct traffic" in Stats > referrers?

 

Sorry, new to Prestashop - any help would be greartly appreicated!

 

[bellini13]

Go to your hosting control panel and locate the access logs, you can then view the raw access requests

[davekeller]

Thanks Bellini - can you recommend a decent report (cPanel)?
 
I've checked a few and the reports in general don't reflect the huge spike I see in PrestaShop BO, this one for example shows no increase in visits. However, not sure if this report includes bot traffic:
 

[davekeller]

Update on this - Prestashop is reporting a huge spike in visitors since I upgraded to 1.6.0.6.

 

My access logs and Google analytics do not reflect the spike.

 

I have upgrade the stats modules but the spike continues.

 

Does anyone have any advice on how to troubleshoot this further?

 

Thanks!