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Please help me, stat!

timpollard — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:49:14 -0800

How can I transfer my free Motigo Webstats icon (and history) from my old MS Frontpage designed website to my shiny new Wordpress one - do I have to modify the theme somehow (and if so, how)? Thanks!

Understanding referrals in awstats

brassafrax — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:59:54 -0800

In awstats, what are these unlabeled columns under referrals? In awstats, the "connect to site from" section contains two columns of numbers. For most referrers, these numbers are the same, but for some, the second column contains a higher number.

I do not believe these columns represent pageviews vs. hits or similar, because the numbers are usually the same in both columns.

I've checked the documentation and searched Google but have not been able to find an answer. Any insight is appreciated.

Porn sites are spamming my web stats. Make it stop.

Milkman Dan — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:53:16 -0800

Porn sites are spamming my web stats. Make it stop. For a few months now, my referral log has been flooded by mildly amusing, but mostly annoying, porn site URLs. These sites are throwing off my data entirely, filling the log with anywhere from 1 to 200 hits each. Almost all of them are over-the-top porn URLs. I want it to stop.

I know what the phenomenon is, and I’ve read all the other AskMe threads about it. I’m not interested in diagnostics, I want to know the cure. I run WordPress, and I’m currently running the Bad Behaviour plug-in, and have been for two months, but the problem has remained. Yes, I run Google Analytics as an alternative, but I’d like to solve the problem within this stats program (Webalizer Version 2.01), too.

Clear, step-by-step instructions would be most helpful, but any suggestions would be much appreciated. Oh, and you can click here to view my referral log from May.

Webstat Pollution is Driving Me Insane

Medieval Maven — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:02:08 -0800

Blogger is polluting my webstats. Hivemind, please hope me. I run a site outside Blogger, and my stats are completely polluted by one person's blog, which IS a Blogger site. I know it's not hotlinking. 1) we have that disabled and 2) I know the person and he isn't the type to hotlink. I know that he has a text link to us on his site, and he's linked to us in past posts, but nothing to justify 99% of our traffic being recorded as being from his site. I don't want him to delink us (rude, and he's part of the group affiliated with the other site).

I have no idea why he's hitting us so much, and it's really out of control. I can see in the stats hits from individual posts that have notihng to do with us (ie, there is no link in the post text to my url).

Any ideas of how to stop this? I need to see the actual traffic being driven to my site, and what I'm getting right now is trash.

I've got the low-down weblog blues

missmobtown — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:56:16 -0800

Hullo. I'm compiling some weblog traffic reports for a site running on two servers (for load balancing). As they are wont to do, each server has collected differnt data... I'm ok as far as the hard numbers go (visitors, views, etc.) but I'm having trouble with figuring out how to present data on things like top ten pages visited, top referrers, etc., since the data for each server is different. Unfortunately these older weblogs are crunched in Webalizer, not a particularly robust compiling program. Any tips or advice from anyone else who does these types of reports about how to lay this out clearly for a persnickety client?

Best stats package for windows servers?

banished — Tue, 02 May 2006 19:39:10 -0800

What is the best webstats package for a windows server?

RSS Referrers

Taken Outtacontext — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:30:40 -0800

How can I include RSS visitors to my Web site in my monthly Web stat report?

Where are these referrers coming from?

Taken Outtacontext — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 06:45:58 -0800

In the past few months visits to my Web sites have increased quite a bit. I'd like to think it is my savy style of witty writing but I doubt it. I'm getting an exorbitant number of visits from Google Images to the blog post I made using that image. It's not that someone is bandwidth stealing. It appears that people are somehow finding this image (which isn't anything special) and then viewing the actual blog post.

It's been consistent for at least four weeks. Lots of my images are showing up on Google (I understand that part) but then the people viewing them appear to then be going to my permalinked post on which that image resides from that Google Images page.

Is this some sort of nafarious referrer scam? If not, I'd like to know where the sudden interest in my stuff is coming from (using Google and other sites to do a link search is not showing sites that either use the image or link to my site). Friends are reporting similar behavior on their sites.

Here's an example of the referring URL:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.outtacontext.com/life/images/gift.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.outtacontext.com/life/archive/000278.shtml&h=200&w=212&sz=10&tbnid=XVJYHNKsjxUJ:&tbnh=95&tbnw=101&hl=en&start=

Good log analyzer software.

Captaintripps — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 10:33:20 -0800

What's the best, free, easy-to-install web statistics/server log analyzer? We recently redesigned and upgraded our web site and want something better than the clunky web tools our host provides.

I've personally downloaded and tried to install AWStats, but this is just way out of my ken. However, I love the functionality and data that AWStats provides, just without the setup hassle.

Any suggestions?

Displaying web stats

o2b — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:30:26 -0800

Web stats: My web host's stats display sucks. I have access to the raw log files, is there anything I can feed them into to get decent results?

Has anyone used Traffic Logic for webpage stats?

Zosia Blue — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:17:32 -0800

Has anyone had any luck with Traffic Logic for boosting company webpage stats? Any praise or horror stories would be appreciated.

Client-Side Web Stats

cell divide — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 15:47:59 -0800

Does anyone have experience with client-side (cookie and JavaScript) web stat programs? Because they don't need to analyze massive log files, they seem to be the way to go... but I have yet to find an open source and/or cheap or free version. If you have experience using either a hosted solution or anything else that is client side, please post.