Are there specific bot names or IDs that should be blocked in PHP to prevent them from skewing website statistics?

Some bots may skew website statistics by repeatedly accessing certain pages, leading to inaccurate data. To prevent this, you can block specific bot names or IDs in PHP by checking the user agent string of incoming requests and denying access to known bots. 

<?php
$blocked_bots = array('BotName1', 'BotName2', 'BotID1');

$user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];

foreach ($blocked_bots as $bot) {
    if (stripos($user_agent, $bot) !== false) {
        header('HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden');
        exit();
    }
}
?>

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