awstats question

Discussion in 'Traffic Analysis' started by weathor, Jun 17, 2010.

  1. #1
    what does Miscellaneous - Hits on favicon.ico mean?

    Mine is 200% how has this been calculated?
     
    weathor, Jun 17, 2010 IP
  2. weathor

    weathor Peon

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    Whats going on? No ideas about it?
     
    weathor, Jun 23, 2010 IP
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    favicon.ico - default file name for your website icon shown in the address bar of the browser. As for how can it get to 200% - not sure
     
    atxsurf, Jun 24, 2010 IP
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    I think awstats only counts a page if the whole thing has been downloaded. Several spiders just download the header, so their view doesn't add to the page count. All your images are in the body, but your favicon (the graphic that appears in the browser bar) is located in your header.

    So basically you're seeing 200% downloads of your favicon because you have just as many pageviews from robots crawling your header as you do visitors reading the entire page.

    At least that's my guess as to what is happening.
     
    Xenlightenment-Teisho, Jun 27, 2010 IP
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    ok thanks I think the "problem" is I.E.
    when it opens a page it hits as a fav icon
     
    weathor, Jun 28, 2010 IP