[svlug] Web statistics

[Greg Lindahl]

Does google analytics do log analysis? I thought it only did remote
monitoring. Which will give a different answer from log analysis,
especially so if you have a lot of Adblock users using your website.

-- greg

> 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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