[thelist] Logging stats - excluding robots?
David Kaufman
david at gigawatt.com
Tue Nov 1 10:04:15 CST 2005
Hi Ian,
Ian Anderson <ian at zstudio.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am writing a simple stats logging feature for a Classic ASP web
> application, and I would like to exclude robots from the results so as
> to produce a more accurate figure for visits by humans.
Why re-invent this wheel? Seperating the robots from the true visitors
is a problem that's already been solved, and the solutions are quite
well tested and actively maintained (even for IIS!) thanks to open
source developers and a wide variety of users.
Try http://www.awstats.org/
AWStats is so good at sepeating robots from true visitors, that one
client of mine doesn't want to switch to it, because their historical
WebTrends reports show such an inflated visitor count that they're
afraid their bosses will think that the site suddenly became less
popular:
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_faq.html#DIFFERENT_RESULTS
-dave
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