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We do our best to offer the best rates in the market and at the same time we code our plugins having in mind how we can make you save requests. That's why it's important for you to understand a some things:
The excessive usage of requests could be due to multiple factors.
But first, let me clarify that requests are consumed every time the plugin makes a call to the API. If you are geotargeting users from one country it doesn't mean that only users from that country will count as requests.
The plugin needs to know the location of the user in order to perform the geotarget functions., so it sends the IP address to the server and the server responds with the location. That will consume one credit.
Malicious bots and crawlers will do consume requests. We do our best to prevent crawlers but we can't detect malicious ones and they will spend requests. We always recommend using a service like Cloudflare that will always tell you the exact traffic (google analytics is not accurate for that) and also will filter a lot of malicious traffic from your site.
That being said, requests can be saved in multiple ways and all of them are specified in the docs. But here you can find some reminders:
If you have doubts about your current settings simple write to support and we will be able to tell if you have your settings optimized to save requests.