I was piddling around with my webspace today setting things up and looking up the analogue stats
One of the things they have on there is an analysis of User agents of browsers that are visiting your site, and i noticed that all the search bots from search engines have a unique user agent to describe themselves.
From this i was amazed how many there are these days as i scrolled through the list and here is what i found:
Check them out, there’s MSN’s msnbot, the googlebot, Yahoo’s Slurp bot – what a name!, Ask Jeave’s teoma bot – it means expert in gaelic. There’s some Japanese bot called the baidu spider and even sites like picsearch have their own PS Bot
So let’s take a step back now, these are all the bots that are properly registered and being recorded for a large portion of the internet. Call me suspicious, but what about those bots that well, aren’t quite so well known and have a very specific mission of what to keep an eye on. I don’t know how many people keep an eye on their stats – i’m generally lazy, but i am interested in who’s getting to my site and from where. The majority come from google, resex, serafin message board and more recently the techsurvivors’ forum, which is a little odd since i haven’t been posting there for a while.
One more thing – i noticed that someone accessed my site through a Symbian OS – that means someone saw my site through their mobile phone – how bizarre
I’m sure Stretch could give you more details as he has Mint installed to check his blog’s traffic and that app grabs plenty of info I am told.
I get those too. And since the Camaro Fanboy incident I even have a mufbot logged on my blog all the time. We both know him… I guess I need to be checked you never know what I could say next. Gestapo time! 😈
Might give mint a go – have got a bunch of stats apps but looking at the screengrab you posted which i assume is from mint it looks pretty good
No it isn’t from Mint, it’s from StatsCounter. At Timmy’s blog you can see some screenshots, though. Here and here. Stretch also has Mint. They could fill you in on all this app can do for you. I heard it is great and that you can tell lots just by looking at the stats… 😉
The MUFbot zaphod is tiring. He only had 173 requests on my blog yesterday. I also have an abuse email addie where we can write if this goes on. He can say whatever the hell he wants about websites being made for visiting. Coupled with the email he sent me, the logs of him trying to gain access to my blog and a few other things I have kept over time, it’s obvious it is pure and simple harassment.
Only 173 times on your site – that’s shoddy!
Will have to get the cattle prod out to stun his senses back onto the job at hand!
Who knows? Maybe he’s trying to make the server crash, I dunno what the f*ck this guy’s problem is other than mental, of course. Well we saw him operate when we were there, right? 🙄