http://visibleranking.com/web-analytics-methods.php Online marketing tools for MARKETING people Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:31:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://visibleranking.com/web-analytics-methods.php/comment-page-1#comment-51715 Tim Marcus Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:11:24 +0000 http://visibleranking.com/?p=1518#comment-51715 NOTES: Just want to let those who are using ClickTracks or similar web log analytic tool know that web server log will record everything, every visits including those spider-like visits. My IT Dept has "secretly" had a pen (or penetration) security test on my company website. The results: abnormally high traffic number. I later found out about this and had to do all kind of stuff including filtering out IPs of the security testing company... to normalize the numbers. If you're using page-tagging method/tool like Google Analytics, you wouldn't be affected as spider-like visits wouldn't trigger the javascript beacon, thus your statistics would remain normal. NOTES: Just want to let those who are using ClickTracks or similar web log analytic tool know that web server log will record everything, every visits including those spider-like visits. My IT Dept has “secretly” had a pen (or penetration) security test on my company website. The results: abnormally high traffic number. I later found out about this and had to do all kind of stuff including filtering out IPs of the security testing company… to normalize the numbers. If you’re using page-tagging method/tool like Google Analytics, you wouldn’t be affected as spider-like visits wouldn’t trigger the javascript beacon, thus your statistics would remain normal.

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