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Doric 4x4 - How are the statistics calculated ?

Why do I collect the statistics ?

I was curious to see what people were clicking on and which photograph was the most popular.

How are the statistics calculated ?

Each time a photograph is viewed on Doric 4x4 the details of that photo, its size and the browser viewing the photo is logged in a MySQL database.

From a valid statistics point of view there are two types of views being counted - human and Internet bots. Internet bots, also known as web robots, WWW robots or simply bots, are software applications that run automated tasks over the Internet.

Human Interaction

A record is created in the database when you click on any of the thumbnails to view a larger image. Details of both the larger image and your web browser are logged. This will apply to almost every site you view.

Internet Bots

Internet bots generally perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human editor alone. The largest use of bots is in web spidering, in which an automated script fetches, analyses and files information from web servers at many times the speed of a human. Each server can have a file called robots.txt containing rules for the spidering of that server that the bot is supposed to obey.

For more information about bots please read the web page on Wikipedia

What do the statistics show ?

The statistics show the number of times a human has viewed the picture. There is however some overlap which is caused by new web robots indexing this site. I do try to correct these as often as I can however there are new robots each week. Every time I encounter a robot I add it to the robots list and the total is recounted.

Which robots do I block ?

The list below shows the robot, number of photographs it has looked at, and the last time it visited. The records marked "Doric 4x4 Testing" show my testing of the photographs. This list is reset, to save space, each week.

AgentsRemovedLast Seen
Mediapartners-Google753792008-08-19 23:06:35
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)232652008-08-20 07:41:58
A1 Sitemap Generator/1.7.1 (+http://www.micro-sys.dk/products/sitemap-generator/) miggibot195552008-08-17 22:22:33
A1 Sitemap Generator/1.7.1 (+http://www.micro-sys.dk/products/sitemap-generator/) miggibot195552008-08-17 22:22:33
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)148242008-08-20 07:41:58
+Doric 4x4 Testing87412008-08-18 06:02:22
GSiteCrawler/v1.23 rev. 286 (http://gsitecrawler.com/)85762008-04-26 09:54:46
A1 Sitemap Generator/1.7.3 (+http://www.micro-sys.dk/products/sitemap-generator/) miggibot69232008-08-12 15:46:39
msnbot/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)51402008-08-18 17:40:23
A1 Keyword Research/1.1.6 (+http://www.micro-sys.dk/products/keyword-research/) miggibot44062008-08-17 22:27:10
msnbot-media/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)8972008-08-13 05:41:05
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; heritrix/1.12.1 +http://www.page-store.com) [email:paul@page-store.com]7332008-01-08 06:34:16
msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)6332008-02-22 23:23:55
+GSiteCrawler Doric4x4 Testing5022008-01-23 06:08:49
Mozilla/5.0 (XML Sitemaps Generator 1.0)1462008-03-06 19:40:51
Gigabot/3.0 (http://www.gigablast.com/spider.html)1422008-08-19 02:31:25
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; +Doric 4x4 Testing MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.1)1152008-01-20 01:26:26
LinkWalker/2.0602008-08-01 23:44:16
Mozilla/5.0 (Twiceler-0.9 http://www.cuill.com/twiceler/robot.html)332008-04-22 12:44:07
W3C_Validator/1.575102008-08-07 13:35:41
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma; +http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml)22008-07-14 21:22:46
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma; +http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml)22008-07-14 21:22:46
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MJ12bot/v1.2.1; http://www.majestic12.co.uk/bot.php?+)22008-07-17 14:10:40
W3C_Validator/1.59112008-08-11 09:35:03
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Vagabondo/4.0; webcrawler at wise-guys dot nl; http://webagent.wise-guys.nl/; http://www.wise-guys.nl/)02008-03-21 09:07:14
   
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