# Fighting spam bots in Mautic. What do you use?

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/fighting-spam-bots-in-mautic-what-do-you-use/12639>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** community, discussion\
**Created:** [February 7, 2020, 4:47am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/fighting-spam-bots-in-mautic-what-do-you-use/12639 "2020-02-07T04:47:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 4:47am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/fighting-spam-bots-in-mautic-what-do-you-use/12639/1 "2020-02-07T04:47:11Z")

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**Your software**  
My Mautic version is: 2.15.3  
My PHP version is: 7.2.24

**Your problem**  
My problem is: I’ve been using Mautic for 2 years now, and now and then I saw spam bots populating my forms.  
I tried the [honeypot method](https://www.mautic.org/community-blog/eliminate-spambots-using-the-honeypot-method/) for a while, and now I am using [reCaptcha](https://github.com/KonstantinCodes/mautic-recaptcha/).

**The problem**  
Although the reCaptcha **solved** my spam problem, It slowed down my pages. It’s because I use it in forms present in the footer of my website (all pages), and reCaptcha’s CSS and JS requests are big (and multiple).

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/e/e7237a12b1f5cf5f9887d73fa8577555d5b52bab.png)  
**What do you use?**  
Which method do you use? Any ideas to workaround this issue?

Steps I have tried to fix the problem: I did [some workaround](https://github.com/KonstantinCodes/mautic-recaptcha/issues/22#issuecomment-582738189) to load reCaptcha after dom ready, but didn’t really solved the problem, as it still loads and is not deferred.