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Stats still cumulating?

Author: E.Geier (23 Sep 08 6:38pm)

Strange, since the relaunch of the project site my stats on the main page seem to have not changed at all: no recent harvesters visits, no new comment spammers, same number of spam mails "this week", same number of referred users...

This looks rather untypical in comparison to the pre-relaunch time. Are you sure that these events are still added to my statistics? Or do the harvesters avoid my sites for whatever reason?

Re: Stats still cumulating?

Author: E.Geier (9 Oct 08 2:30pm)

Hm, I seem to be the only one who has no harvester visits anymore?
Nothing has changed for my stats since the site relaunch, beside one comment spammer, and me commenting on an IP address. Even the number of spam e-mails "received this week" is constant and didn't change. Very strange!

Re: Stats still cumulating?

Author: L.Holloway (21 Oct 08 6:53pm)

Hi! The latest release should address the issue of your stats in the upper left box not updating. It looks like your spam numbers have gone up, but not too many harvesters have hit your honey pot.

You may want to double check and make sure the honey pot is decently linked to. Also make sure you turn off any user-agent based banning rules for your honey pot page. Cheers!

Re: Stats still cumulating?

Author: E.Geier (23 Oct 08 6:32pm)

Yes, thanks, now it's a little better. And you are right, there seem to be few harvesters only, but some comment spammers having visted my three sites. And yes, my honeypots are linked to quite often. And no, there are not user-agent or otherwise based banning rules yet for any pages at my sites, including the honeypots.

Re: Stats still cumulating?

Author: E.Geier (19 Nov 08 4:18pm)

The counter for weekly Harvester visits still does not seem to be maintained. Since the system change I've never seen a number other than zero. The list of harvesters having visited my site on the right seems to be changing and growing, however...

Re: Stats still cumulating?

Author: E.Geier (28 Nov 08 7:20pm)

Now I got 2 harvesters "per week", but 10 comment spammers. Quite unusual?

Re: Stats still cumulating?

Author: M.Prince (12 Dec 08 9:20pm)

Fixed the stats bug. Turned out to be tricky, but should be back working now.

The 2/10 harvesters/comment spammers ratio seems about right. Harvesters are actually fairly rare. On any given week, we typically see less than 1,000 harvester IPs operating throughout the whole Internet. On the other hand, there are usually over 10,000 comment spammers' IPs operating in any given week.

Re: Stats still cumulating?

Author: E.Geier (25 Dec 08 10:25am)

Agreed, I think this is fixed now. Many thanks!