[thelist] Question about Page Requests

[Dan Leonard]

Damien and the others who responded,

Thanks for the info. You've given me some good possibilities to share
with my client.

-Dan



Damien wrote:
> It can be search engines bots or other bots hitting or trying to hit
> such a file as "robots.txt" while not spidering any page just now.


I originally wrote:
> ----------
> I thought I also understood the issue of browser caching and how that
> affects statistics. But I'm stumped! What I don't understand is this:
> for August 5th, her output report says the number of requests is 7,
> yet
> the number of page requests is 0. Can anyone give me an
> example/scenario
> of how this would happen? Am I right in thinking that in order for the
> total requests to be greater than 0, the page requests would have to
> at least be 1?