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1. KarlOnSea
   Member

   Hi -
   As soon as I moved over to Sweat365, I got a big bump in my average daily stats. The thing is though, I'm wondering if this is correct. My biggest 'referrer' is always 'Direct Link' (~80%), followed by 'Internal' (19%), and my 'Top Posts' are always 'Blog Home Page' (~28%), then 'Archives/Categories' (~24%), followed by various posts.

   The regularity of this pattern makes me wonder if there's something going on in the way Sweat365 is running / updating stuff in the background. Or does my Blog Stats graph actually tell the truth, and I've now got twice the readers I had on Wordpress?

   Karl.

   Posted 5 years ago #

2. Anonymous
   Unregistered

   I noticed that too. I was thinking it could be a bug, but I was also hoping that I got more readers. I'm looking forward to finding out!

   Posted 5 years ago #

3. riddenwords
   Administrator

   They are high from a visitor point of view. Didn't notice this in testing because we weren't live but we don't currently filter out web crawlers. It's on the todo list but because it's not causing problems and it should be a pretty consistent backgound number, it's been priortized behind other tasks.

   Is it sufficient to know there's a background number of hits that are from web crawlers? We're driven by your requests so if you'd like to see us filter out these hits, let us know and we'll bump it up in priority.

   Posted 5 years ago #

4. KarlOnSea
   Member

   Just knowing the approximate level of background chatter from the spiders would be fine for me.

   Thanks!
   Karl.

   Posted 5 years ago #

5. Anonymous
   Unregistered

   What is a background crawler? It would be good to know the difference or approx. I guess?

   Posted 5 years ago #

6. gardenmentor
   Member

   Seeing both real visitor stats & crawler stats, differentiated, would be cool.

   BTW: what is Region A and Region B if I look at archive/category stats? I see bar graphs for 2 regions for 2003, 2004, 2005.

   Posted 5 years ago #

7. Brad Hefta-Gaub
   Administrator

   Garden Mentor, that Region A/Region B for 2003,2004,2005 chart would be a bug! Let's all give Ridden Words a raspberry when we see him online... it's all his fault. ;)

   Posted 5 years ago #

8. kathy
   Member

   Hi, I have noticed, over the last few months, crazy high spikes in my views. I see the catagories of "Direct Link", "Internal Link", "Blog Home" and few members pages as well as random web searches listed. However, most of the time the views are listed under direct or internal tallys. please correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't these types of (or at least the internal ones) list the blogger's page and second, are they looking at one entry then clicking to the next entry to accumulate such high numbers? or is it all inclusive no matter how many entries they view? Please shed some light on this confused soul if you can so I don't feel so "watched"! Thanks

   Posted 3 years ago #

9. Brad Hefta-Gaub
   Administrator

   katmat, we'll look at it. I suspect that it may be the case that a search engine robot might cause those spikes.

   So maybe the search engine scanned our home page. Saw a post from you, added your blog to a list of blogs to scan. Then it went to your first page, saw a link to a page it never saw before and goes to the next one.

   Depending on how the search engine is coded, it will either look like "direct" because it had no referrer, or internal because it listed the last page as a referrer.

   We try to filter out traffic from known search engines so that it doesn't give the false impression that someone is reading every blog post.

   Posted 3 years ago #

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