Hi everyone,
I’m managing server-side tracking for a Shopify store using Stape with the Conversion Tracking app, Custom Loader, and Cookie Keeper. The setup has been working fine for months — until a recent theme change caused our request volume on Stape to skyrocket.
The increase is mostly in ScriptLoad and Other request categories, both under GA4 and Other Request types.
Any help would be appreciated. Happy to share more screenshots or details.
Thanks!
Hi,
My advice would be to check this requests in your container logs using the relevant filter, and verify what these requests are and where they’re coming from.
Since the new theme went live, we’ve been getting bombarded by requests from:
User-Agent: AdsBot-Google (+http://www.google.com/adsbot.html)
This was not happening before the theme change.
Has anyone else experienced this? Curious to know if other stores running Google Ads saw a similar spike after a theme update.
From what I’ve seen, changing the theme may cause AdsBot to re-check your pages to ensure they match the ad landing pages and that the page content aligns with the ad text.
How long ago did you change your shop’s theme?
From what I’ve seen, changing the theme may cause AdsBot to re-check your pages to ensure they match the ad landing pages and that the page content aligns with the ad text.
How long ago did you change your shop’s theme?
From what I’ve noticed on your container, there are a lot of set-cookie requests in the GA4 client category. This may indicate that you are using GA4 requests as a transport for server tags from marketing platforms other than GA4 and Google Ads, which triggers these automatic set-cookie Google requests, as your server fires many other third-party tags based on the GA4 request.
The solution to this problem is to migrate all non-Google platforms to Data Tag/Data Client.
Thanks so much for your help, I also thought it was mainly due to the influx of bots.
The theme was changed on April 14th.
Is there a way to exclude them?
Unfortunately, no such protection exists; the container will still receive these requests, as it accepts all requests sent to it.
The only thing you can do is prevent them from being forwarded to analytics or marketing platforms using the Bot Detection PowerUp.
