Mystery URLs showing in Analytics - All 404s

[CayenneRed89]

Hi Guys

So we have a whole load of mystery urls showing in analytics .The urls are completely not relevant and have somehow been created

However - when you click on the URLs - they all go to 404 pages - pages not found.

The website is a travel website but is showing pages like

/overcome-fatigue-during-mesothelioma-treatment/ in analytics.

Webmaster is not showing any of these pages - but analytics is showing traffic for them???

My initial thought was that it was a spam URL injection - but they are not pages. They don't exist

Our database is fine, WP admin seems fine - none of these supposed pages have been created on WP - so why are they showing on analytics as having driven traffic???

None of the urls are indexed on Google.

Its a mystery!!!! Can anyone help?  Has anyone seen this before????

[KristinaKledzik]

Very weird! Have you looked at your log files to find the IP requesting those URLs?

[CayenneRed89]

Hi Kristina

Problem fixed - the websites analytics was suffering from Ghost Spam URLs.

A new one for me!

Best

Duncan