help with traffic analysis

[coooldude]

hi,


i setup a new proxy site yesterday: mroxy.info

i've installed statcounter code init, which is giving me yesterday's visit's as 30


but today for some reason the site went down with an error message 'bandwidth exceeded' . 1 gb BW was been alloted the site.

I just logged into my host cpanel and checked the awstats and it says the yesterdays stats close to 1500, yet no clue from where or who.

adsense says 0 visits or clicks

i today upgraded the BW by 2more gb for the time being
can anyone help an tell what might be goin on?

[manish.chauhan]

The traffic in Your Cpanel also include the robots/crawler visits and these visits could not be accessed using statcounter or GA, Statcounter only shows you real traffic coming from real visitors...:)

[bobchrist]

Also you can use Google Analytics, best tools to track stats.

[coooldude]

The traffic in Your Cpanel also include the robots/crawler visits and these visits could not be accessed using statcounter or GA, Statcounter only shows you real traffic coming from real visitors...:)

yes but do you think bots are the reason to eat up the 1GB BW in 1 day???

i will pm u the hosting login details, can u please check it for me?


Thanks,
Raja

[manish.chauhan]

yes but do you think bots are the reason to eat up the 1GB BW in 1 day???

i will pm u the hosting login details, can u please check it for me?


Thanks,
Raja

Yes no doubt....it can take more than 1 GB in a day....Just send me ur datails....:)

[coooldude]

PM sent

if it is due to bots, what is the use of them for me? how can i stop them further?

[manish.chauhan]

There are many spammy robots that just dig your website to gather email ids or for some other spamming..so it'll be better if you restrict those robots using your robots.txt...However some time these bad robots ignore the robots.txt, then you can block or restrict them using htaccess by denying their IP address. you can find some bad robots list here (http://seocrazy.blogspot.com/2008/04/spammy-robots-list.html)...:)

[coooldude]

thk q

repped!

[gostats]

Glad you got it sorted out coooldude. You might also want to try GoStats (http://gostats.com) in the future to compare your results and trends.