@Melanie Wehowski the other reason I elected to not have a server side stored is one privacy of actual humans that visit my site directly, and I just rather not be collecting useless data on a fairly restricted shared hosting environment, I am sure with a little time and a bit more effort on my part I could build fort knox around my instance, but the whole point of this was to cut down on the constant abusive bots and scrappers, and at this time it appears to have worked or is working as is;