Referer Spam Blocker for WordPress

3.0(2 reviews)60 installs

By WP Maintainer

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Listing audit: 46/100

Referer Spam Blocker is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by WP Maintainer. With a rating of 3.0★ from 2 reviews.

Referer Spam Blocker is a WordPress app, with a 3.0 average rating from 2 reviews, as of Sep 11, 2026.

AppRanks verdict

Generated from marketplace data as of Sep 11, 2026

Referer Spam Blocker is a WordPress app. It holds a 3.0★ average from 2 reviews on WordPress.

Pros

No standout positives in the measured data.

Cons

−Average rating below 4.0 (3.0★) — read recent low-star reviews before committing
−Only 2 reviews — the average can still move with a few new ratings

How Referer Spam Blocker works

Referer spam has been growing and clogging up website analytics data (such as Google Analytics) with fraudulent traffic statistics. Millions of users are reporting issues and it has become a major nuisance.

Block these malicious sites easily. All major referer spam domains blocked out of the box and you can customize the domain keyword lists to block any domains you wish. Brought to you by the team of WordPress experts at WP Maintainer.

Standardized capabilities

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Ratings and reviews

3.0

2 reviews on WordPress

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About Referer Spam Blocker on the WordPress Plugin Directory

Referer Spam Blocker is one of the apps AppRanks tracks on the WordPress Plugin Directory. We refresh public marketplace data — pricing, rating, review count, category position, featured-section memberships — within the per-marketplace freshness targets published on our methodology page, and we publish the snapshot here exactly as it appears on the source marketplace. There is no proprietary score on this page; everything you see is mirrored from the live listing at our last crawl. If you are evaluating Referer Spam Blocker against alternatives, the independent listing audit scores it against the same rubric we apply to every app on the platform — listing completeness, rating health, review velocity, merchandising, and ranking consistency. The audit also surfaces a prioritized recommendation list, so a developer can see exactly which fixes would move the score most. For market context, browse the full WordPress app index to see how this app's metrics compare against others on the same marketplace.

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What is Referer Spam Blocker?

Referer Spam Blocker is a WordPress app by WP Maintainer. It holds a 3.0-star average from 2 reviews on WordPress.

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About Referer Spam Blocker on the WordPress Plugin Directory

Referer Spam Blocker is one of the apps AppRanks tracks on the WordPress Plugin Directory. We refresh public marketplace data — pricing, rating, review count, category position, featured-section memberships — within the per-marketplace freshness targets published on our methodology page, and we publish the snapshot here exactly as it appears on the source marketplace. There is no proprietary score on this page; everything you see is mirrored from the live listing at our last crawl. If you are evaluating Referer Spam Blocker against alternatives, the independent listing audit scores it against the same rubric we apply to every app on the platform — listing completeness, rating health, review velocity, merchandising, and ranking consistency. The audit also surfaces a prioritized recommendation list, so a developer can see exactly which fixes would move the score most. For market context, browse the full WordPress app index to see how this app's metrics compare against others on the same marketplace.

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