[svlug] Web statistics

[Chris DiBona]

I'm not just pimping my company's products when I say that Google
Analytics is pretty handy. Try it out.

Chris

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Don Marti <dmarti at zgp.org> wrote:
> begin Tony Hartzell quotation of Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:58:57PM -0700:
>
>> I saw that these traffic analyzers looked at apache's log file. I
>> checked out /var/log/apache/apache.log and in about 36 hours it's about
>> 3.3MB and filled with entries like I've included in inc.txt...I think I
>> should be worried. Can anyone advise?
>
> It's called "referer spam."  Spammers hope that
> you'll put your web stats up publicly, including
> your top HTTP Referers, and thereby give them some
> Google juice.
>
> It seems to work often enough to get them to keep
> doing it.
>
> The most important countermeasure is to make sure
> that any stat pages where a referer might show up are
> either not public or at least blocked by robots.txt
>
> I'm working on a script that webmasters can use to
> clean referer spam out of Apache log files.  Anyone
> who wants to try it can send me mail off-list and I'll
> let you know when it's up.
>
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> Don Marti
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> dmarti at zgp.org
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