[svlug] Web statistics

[Chris DiBona]

Adblock generally doesn't block GA. GA is designed to track user
activity, including visits, browers capabilities, geo-location of
visitiors, referrers and more. I does requrie your visitons have
javascript enabled, but it is the rare person who doesn't have that
turned on.

It's easy and free to use. (free as in beer)

Chris

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Greg Lindahl <lindahl at pbm.com> wrote:
> 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.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Don Marti
>> > http://zgp.org/~dmarti/
>> > dmarti at zgp.org
>> >
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