Over the last year, many Shopify store owners have seen sudden floods of visits from China and Singapore. The visits don’t buy anything. Most last a second or two. Some add a cheap product to the cart and leave.

These visits are bots, not shoppers. They come in huge numbers and from thousands of different addresses, so blocking them one by one is a fight you can’t win.

The quick fix is to block the countries you don’t sell to. The lasting fix is to also check every visitor, so bots get caught even after they switch countries. Skyfense does both.