Strange Stats
Hi
I am new to this forum but it looks very nice with polite webmasters who DONT flame!! omg!! lol
Well I have just setup my new hosting site zanga.co.uk and I am surprised since within the first few days, without any advertising at all, I have had around 80 unique hits, mostly from the usa when i live in the uk so it cant be most of my friends. I have no idea were these hits are coming from since I havent submited to google or anything.
Im not complaining just curious
So does anyone know where these hits may of come from?
Thanks a lot Joe
teammatt3 posted this at 22:09 — 7th January 2006.
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Mars.
Why don't you check your stats program like Webalizer or Awstats?
Zanga.Co.Uk posted this at 22:47 — 7th January 2006.
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Yeah im using awstats
teammatt3 posted this at 22:50 — 7th January 2006.
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Check the referers. See where they are coming from. Don't forget to update it.
Busy posted this at 23:14 — 7th January 2006.
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You will get a lot of bots looking for form mail and phpbb weaknesses, ways they can spam.
keep an eye on your logs and block bots only by name, not by IP as most are faked and dont use/have a formmailer script. If you do, put it in a folder that is not for public
Zanga.Co.Uk posted this at 23:16 — 7th January 2006.
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Its not bots cos awstats has a seperate section for bots and spiders and there are not hits in that section
Busy posted this at 23:24 — 7th January 2006.
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i dont have a high opinion of awstats and webstats etc, they are very limited in what they do. You might have to get your hands dirty and go through your raw logs, then you can see what is really happening
Zanga.Co.Uk posted this at 23:33 — 7th January 2006.
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Ok i think i might
Thanks for the advice
Zanga.Co.Uk posted this at 00:08 — 8th January 2006.
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Is there a way to update awstats manually? Because it says it will update every 24 hours but it hasnt updated in about 29 now...
teammatt3 posted this at 00:29 — 8th January 2006.
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Hit "Update Now" at the very top of Awstats on the right of the last update
Zanga.Co.Uk posted this at 00:50 — 8th January 2006.
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there isnt an update now link, it is the awstats that is installed w/ cpanel
Zanga.Co.Uk posted this at 01:06 — 8th January 2006.
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Right ive messed around with the config file and ive updated stats
yay butttt the thing is my awstats say ive used 27 mb bw but cpanel says ive used 40 mb so whats going on there?
Edit: Sorry for double post btw
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