Firefox preloads pages ? Fake hits ?

Discussion in 'Traffic Analysis' started by scrooble, Nov 14, 2005.

  1. #1
    Hi all,
    I've noticed a patter several times a day - page loads and then almost immidiately several links from that page are loaded too. Too fast for human.
    All come from :
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; nl-NL; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7

    All have Firefox. Same IP and about one second difference one from eachother.

    Is it some feature of Firefox that it preloads pages ?

    May be it's good for surfer, but then I can't know what exactly did he saw.
    Thanks.:confused:
     
    scrooble, Nov 14, 2005 IP
  2. JamieC

    JamieC Well-Known Member

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    No, I don't think that firefox has a preload feature. At least not one that I know of.

    Have you considered that it might be someone who wants to read all your articles opening them each manually in quick sucession in a new tab for later reading at leisure? That's what I do when I visit my news sites.

    - Jamie
     
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  4. scrooble

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    I dont' think so, because
    1. they are loaded almost at the same second.
    2. some link are hardly visible :)
     
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    As JamieC pointed out i commonly for example when viewing an forum listing page will open numerous pages within quickly in new tabs then browse through each one afterwards.
     
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    fryman Kiss my rep

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  7. scrooble

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    You are right, I think.

    Just imagine if every browser would do that, the traffic would jump by 1000%
     
    scrooble, Nov 16, 2005 IP