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RE: Confusion on yesterday's Site Stats

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:34:20 -0400

I understand your confusion, but unfortunately you can not tally up referers and assume it will equal your page views. We have to record referers for all objects on a page, so there will always be more referers than pages. Yes, even if sourcing is disallowed.

RE: Confusion on yesterday's Site Stats

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:07:30 -0400

John: Thanks for the fast and very complete answer. I really thought I was starting to understand things -- until I checked Site Stats this morning.

In the Referer Summary there were 1449 from Google IP 66.102.9.104. There were 14 from the other Google IP you identified 64.233.167.104. And there were 178 on a new one, 72.14.235.104.

That totals 1641, but the HTML Requests were only 539, and Total Page Views was 619.

So, now I an confused again. Can you explain his discrepancy, please?

Thanks, Phil Arnold

RE: Confusion on yesterday's Site Stats

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:55:14 -0400

1) I'm assuming it is a good thing to have Google Translate brouse my site in another language. Correct?

I can't see how having users view your site in their own lanuage would be a bad thing.

2) Why would they do it so much on one day and not at all on most others?

I don't know, maybe some website or news source somewhere mentioned your story?

3) There were nine entries, why so many? Nine different languages?

If you look at the URLs there are a few different languages and various pages.

4) Most of the browsing was to one ElvisBlog article. Wouldn't once be enough, not hundreds of times.

Seems like there were a few different articles. And once would be enough if you only had one visitor, but I think Google translates on the fly so it needs to fetch your page once for each user.

I have always thought blog traffic was measured in hits.

Hits is a somewhat outdated term, but yes it means HTML pages viewed.

are HTML Requests the measure of hits

Yes.

How does HTML Requests differ from Total Page Views

Total Page Views adds HTML and XML pages together. XML is your RSS feed and access to trackbacks.

...there were 84 from 72.14.235.104. can you identify this IP address and tell me it's OK?

Yes, that IP address is owned by Google.

7) Is any of this using my bandwidth like hotlinking does?

Yes, these are normal accesses to your blog and sending the information to those who are requesting it does consume bandwidth.

Hope this answers all your questions.

RE: Confusion on yesterday's Site Stats

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:24:28 -0400

John: Thank you for your prompt reply.

You asked me what I think the issue is. Well, the reason i wrote was to find out if I had an issue. I''m just a dumb home blogger, and when something strange shows up, I worry. To me, having 311 referrers from one IP address show up in one day is strange, particularly when it is more than the hits shown on Distinct Hosts Served.

I guess you are telling me it's not a problem, but I'm still not clear on many things. I hope you don't mind educating me on them.

1) I'm assuming it is a good thing to have Google Translate brouse my site in another language. Correct?

2) Why would they do it so much on one day and not at all on most others?

3) There were nine entries, why so many? Nine different languages?

4) Most of the browsing was to one ElvisBlog article. Wouldn't once be enough, not hundreds of times.

5) When I said that the 311 came to more than my total hits for the day, you said, " No they did not. Your stats show total HTML requests for the day to be 808." The Users Manual definition for HTML is: the number of pages viewed using a web browser. I have always thought blog traffic was measured in hits. So, are HTML Requests the measure of hits, not Distinct Hosts Served? How does HTML Requests differ from Total Page Views

6) I had the same problem, excuse me, the same situation yesterday. There were 375 more referrers from the Google IP address. In addition, there were 84 from 72.14.235.104. can you identify this IP address and tell me it's OK?

7) Is any of this using my bandwidth like hotlinking does?

John, i know this is a lot of questions. If it's too much, answer what you want now and I'll try again on the others. Sorry to be a bother.

Phil Arnold

RE: Confusion on yesterday's Site Stats

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:51:35 -0400

Still can not see what you think the issue is.

http://66.102.9.104/translate (plus slightly different endings on each one).

Yep, look at the Referer Summary and follow those links. Seems some folks were using Google's Translate feature to browse your site in another language. 66.102.9.104 is a Google IP address. I don't see anything unusual there.

They totalled 311, more than the total hits.

No, they did not. Your stats show total HTML requests for the day to be 808. Take a look.

Still don't see what you think to be a problem...

RE: Confusion on yesterday's Site Stats

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:39:37 -0400

I am afraid I can't understand what you believe the issue to be... Can you tell me more clearly what you think is a problem?

RE: Confusion on yesterday's Site Stats

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:32:45 -0400

I am afraid this request is similar to the one I posted on June 4 that started this whole thread.

Yesterday, July 22, ElvisBlog had 196 Distinct Hosts Served, well below my average. When I clicked on Referer Summary, the first nine lines were all:

http://66.102.9.104/translate (plus slightly different endings on each one). They totalled 311, more than the total hits.

John, when you answer this, please keep in mind that I unclicked Allow Sourcing of Files and Images over a month ago. This was a result of your suggestion to read Prohibiting Linking to Content on Your Blog. The section that follows after that is Blocking IPs that Have Links to Your Blog. We can see that the IP is 66.102.9.104. Is this something I should be doing here?

Thanks for your help, Phil Arnold

RE: Sitepal

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:26:07 -0400

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because I could never get javascript from Sitemeter to work with blogharbor, either.

I and other users have used Sitemeter for years. There's no reason why it shouldn't work.

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Over at Sitepal, I am given the choice of the following coding formats:

Standard Web Page (java)
Web page - no java
Flash

My guess would be to go with standard...

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Or does SitePal not work with blogharbor?

I can't imagine why it wouldn't work here or anywhere else. There's nothing here that should cause a problem

How about you give us a link to look at that shows how you implemented it? Troubleshooting theoretical web implementations is pretty much impossible.

RE: Changing general design of blog

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:09:42 -0400

Thanks John.

Now I remember. And of course the solution was right in front of me.

Bill
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RE: Changing general design of blog

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:42:08 -0400

Just stop adding an Excerpt to your post and it will be displayed as full text in category view.

Changing general design of blog

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:03:34 -0400

I have tried to find the answer to this question elsewhere, but failed. I must know how because I made the original change. Alzheimer�s strikes again.

My present blog layout has a snippet of several blogs on the home page with the option for readers to hit �more� and read the rest of my blog. I created this form. I want to return to the format where the last blog published is on the main page in full, so a reader can read all of it without hitting �more.�

How do I accomplish this transition?

Thanks Bill
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Sitepal

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:21:46 -0400

I'm having trouble trying to get Sitepal to work in the left sidebar.

The javascript doesn't work correctly, but that doesn't surprise me because I could never get javascript from Sitemeter to work with blogharbor, either.

So, I've been using regular HTML and that isn't working right, either. The background changes and the voice changes.

So, is there something else I should be doing when I create a component?

Over at Sitepal, I am given the choice of the following coding formats:

Standard Web Page (java)
Web page - no java
Flash

Or does SitePal not work with blogharbor?

Thank you.

RE: stormwatchnews

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:19:43 -0400

FYI, the company that runs this bot (www.skygrid.com ) did reply to my request and was very gracious, they agreed that the scanning was too aggressive and will be correcting that promptly. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

RE: stormwatchnews

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:34:54 -0400

Looks like it is some kind of overanxious RSS bot, it's checking your RSS feed times a minute... I'll see if I can get in touch with the service that owns this bot to see if they can ease up a bit.

stormwatchnews

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:10:37 -0400

The hits on my site www.epharmony.com jumped up daily during the first week of July by about 5,000 hits a day more than usual, and it all seems to be coming off a browser called "stormwatchnews" . Is this a problem I should know something about or be doing something about? If it doesn't mean I have a lot of new readers, then it's kind of misleading and I'd like to know what it means. Do I (or you) need to do something about it...? Is it like spam? I've googled it briefly but can't make much sense of it....

Thanks for any help you can give me.... Eppy Harmon/Nancy Pace
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