Re: Problem with page counts

On 2/21/2009 1:27 PM, Iain Hunneybell wrote:
>
> As for page counts, my best rationalisation is that the high overnight count
> is spiders and so analog is correctly showing page requests that aren't
> being recorded by the page view 'bug'. Then over day proxies are causing the
> page bug to record higher page views than seen by the servers. It's the best
> rationalisation I've come up with so far!

You should be able to test that by using FROM and TO  and doing a log 
analysis for an hour in the middle of the night, and looking at the Full 
Browser report. Most well behaved spiders identify themselves.

You can also do a Full Browser report on requests for /robots.txt and 
then use that to create a list of BROWEXCLUDE commands so that you can 
see if the human-driven traffic patterns make more sense.

Aengus
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