Comments on: An epitaph for server logs? AVG Linkscanner

By: rocky

rocky — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:45:00 +0000

Exactly. We have a post on that almost ready.

By: MitchellT

MitchellT — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:31:26 +0000

This is a very good post and it is thought provoking.

Regarding http 4xx and 5xx errors, it should be easy enough to code custom pages for each error and place an image ‘ping’ tag to the SDC server so those pages may be tabulated similar to the way they are using logs.

By: rocky

rocky — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:20:51 +0000

And I’ve added some stats to the post showing relative numbers.

By: rocky

rocky — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:43:17 +0000

Ow. I guess it shows that I don’t use On Demand. Of course you’re right and I’ve removed it from the original post.

By: Jacques Warren

Jacques Warren — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:24:49 +0000

Hi rocky,

“Users of On-Demand can only filter out this beast going forward” is not entirely exact, since being on WTOD means using SDC, thus not susceptible to the AVG bot effect (yet?).

Great post by the way. I wonder however if that bot can have a huge impact on a site number, since it would visit the site only when it showed in search engine results, and providing it was used by the visitor. Personally, I haven’t seen suspicious activity from a ;1813 browser (i.e. would show up at the top of Top Visitors), but I will look it up.