Human or Google hit?

Discussion in 'Traffic Analysis' started by Henrik, Sep 14, 2007.

  1. #1
    I need help clarifying if a hit on a web page is a human click or a search engine hit. Like, did a human really click the search result or did Google generate a hit...

    Say you are using a counter with statistics on your website, like StatCounter, W3Counter or even Analytics.
    You're looking at Statistics -> Latest Referrers and the usual 1-time-only hits from search engines.
    Are these hits coming from actual humans clicking only one time on the search result or is it simply a hit generated by Google during a search?

    Tough to explain, I hope you get the point. Thanks.
     
    Henrik, Sep 14, 2007 IP
  2. Henrik

    Henrik Peon

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    #2
    Meh, stupid question, really. It must be human. Sorry, I wasn't thinking clearly ::rolleyes:
     
    Henrik, Sep 14, 2007 IP
  3. Adulu

    Adulu Peon

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    #3
    That's human
    I never seen counter scripts could count from robot.
     
    Adulu, Sep 14, 2007 IP
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    IEmailer.com Well-Known Member

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    Grate that you got it straight then, Yes it's a human visit :)
     
    IEmailer.com, Sep 14, 2007 IP
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    amwyyytg Well-Known Member

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    #5
    obviously ,human click
    robot is meanless
     
    amwyyytg, Sep 14, 2007 IP
  6. corlock

    corlock Banned

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    #6
    obviously its human visitors that generates hits
     
    corlock, Sep 14, 2007 IP
  7. nextgen66

    nextgen66 Well-Known Member

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    Lol if google is gonna start auto generating hits then I hope they start auto generating conversions :rolleyes:
     
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    #8
    Awstats will show you visits from bots
     
    bikeman, Sep 14, 2007 IP
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    #9
    Human Visit definitely, as said above.
     
    galaxydefender, Sep 14, 2007 IP
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    #10
    Yes, that's for sure that its human hits. If you want to see what bots hits your site then create an account in feed burner, it will show you a stats of your hits from human and bots.
     
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    #11
    Definitely it's human.
     
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  12. tushardhoot1

    tushardhoot1 Active Member

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    Well, as you know, human..

    I use awstats as well as analytics, and awstats counts spiders seperatly, so it tells me how often spiders are on my sites.
     
    tushardhoot1, Sep 14, 2007 IP
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    Adulu is right JavaScript tag based web analytic doesn’t identify robot
     
    Husam, Sep 17, 2007 IP