Scared as Page views changed from 2000 to 26471 in 3days

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    A site managed by me is showing some strange statistics for last 3 days. The page views has increased drastically from around 2000/day to 4282.
    On 13th page view – 6944
    14th – 11970
    15th – 26471

    I follow weblizer and modlogan in that site .
    Visits/Day and Hits/Day is almost same and total search engine string for this month(15days) is 270 – which is almost same as last month.

    There is one strange entry in referees: Field blocked by ProxyWay (http://www.ProxyWay.com) though it’s not among the TOP 10 referees and its hits % is 0.01
    I am a bit scared. What could be the reason ?
     
    nita_nitd, Dec 16, 2006 IP
  2. vid

    vid Peon

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    Why do you think that it is strange?
     
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  3. alemcherry

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    Top 1 or 2 referes should tell you the story. Your site getting listed in some popular site could be the reason. Me too dont find anything scary about that!
     
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  4. nita_nitd

    nita_nitd Active Member

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    Because it has never happend to me before.
    is it normal ? :confused: :confused:
     
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    I had the same situation a couple of weeks ago and my host told me that PHP includes were each being recorded as page views. So as I replaced menu, footer, header, adsense etc in the site with PHP includes the number of pages went up dramatically faster than the number of unique visitors.

    probably not the only possible answer though.

    I don't think it's a google question ;) if you search for a more appropriate section of the forum your question will be seen by lots more techie types
     
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  6. nita_nitd

    nita_nitd Active Member

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    Thanks Rasputin
    Your answer seems to be quite logical though I am yet to figure out what is the exact cause.
    I had searched the forum but did not get any relevant answer so I post that message.
    Thanks any way.
     
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  7. Seiya

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    People who are scared for getting more traffic are just plain silly... come on, google does not take your right to grow away... unless you went and bought traffic from china to click on your ads, you should NOT be scared.
     
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    classifieds Sopchoppy Flash

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    It could be that a scraper/email harvester is ripping through your site using a proxy server.

    What is the pageview per visit?

    Does the site run adsense? If so have your adense pageviews gone up?
     
    classifieds, Dec 16, 2006 IP
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    Freewebspace Notable Member

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    I think spiders may be spidering your site repeatedly
     
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    Same thing happened to me. A week later adsense banned me.
     
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    By your competitors?
     
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    nita_nitd Active Member

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    Yes adsense is there and the adsense page views is almost same during this period.. so may be its something technical problem
     
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    It's quite a good news I think..
     
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    Many logging tools can recognize spiders by either robots.txt hit or their useragent name.
     
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    Legitimate crawlers will read robots.txt and have an identifiable UA but the scrapers and harvesters won't & don't.

    It's nearly impossible to tell the difference between a real user and a well written scraper script. In fact I've even seen scrapers that support Javascript, have MS-IE UAs and mimick the behaviour of a human.

    If you analyze your logfiles and see page views coming from IP addresses that are assigned to a hosting company then you're being scraped. Block the entire range of that host via .htaccess and that particular problem will go away.
     
    classifieds, Dec 19, 2006 IP