Do spambots ignore javascript?

Question

My website registration page was crammed with spam bots to the smallest detail of 1 attempt to fake registration per day (crammed compared to my total traffic!).

Since registration is triggered when sending confirmation letters, I would like to block this if possible.

I went ahead and implemented a hidden form input screen (address, phone, etc.), and now my site is automatically redirected to spambot.php if the "sensors" work.

This works great ...

but I'm curious how after effects. I have my own javascript Google Analytics on the spambot.php page, but it only registered 1 page in the last month. Meanwhile, my AWStats host has 19 page views - which would seem correct when looking at a past story.

What makes me wonder if spam bots ignore javascript at all?

Answer 1

Since this is a very difficult question to answer, I will just give my own, subjective opinion:

No , most of them probably do not.

I cannot prove that this is true, but another, similar question that I often see is whether the Googlebot robot ignores JavaScript or not - and it may seem like it "t .

Google (possibly) throws away most of JavaScript because of performance reasons - and since Googlebot and spambot do the same thing - they crawl a website - I don’t think most spam bots will run JavaScript.