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About counting hits to site.

Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 10:41 pm
by mparker1113
I have a counter that will record each time that my site's home page is opened for the first time by a user. Is it possible that I am counting server pings, or 'bots that are 'viewing' my site? I ask, because I do not find the site on the search engines when I enter the key words, and I have not gotten any feedback from the listed contact regarding any inquiries, Yet -- I have at least 3 - 7 hits listed per day, every day for the last several months.

Am I missing out on weeding out non-legitimate hits ? Or am i more popular than I thought (?)

Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 10:45 pm
by hawleyjr
3 to 7 hits really isn't much (Not to rain on your parade)

Are you tracking the user agent or IP address? Although not 100% reliable they can help :)

Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:09 am
by mparker1113
Actually, the way that i am tracing is by setting a server variable when they visit (SERVER['logged_in']; and then incrementing for each hit that doesn't have that variable set ( of course i set it after I increase my count by 1).

I am not feeling "picked on" by the counts -- I just want to be accurate -- :D)