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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Keith A <su...@gate.net> on 2006/07/27 02:10:00 UTC
[users@httpd] Is this normal?
I am new to this site and have been reading through all the information
presented here, but my search didn't answer my question.
I run my site on an apache server and I have access to the raw apache
logs. Lately I've been analyzing these by hand to see a more complete
picture of where traffic is currently coming from/search etc. rather
than the monthly summary that Webalizer gives you.
Anyway, if a visitor comes in to the site (and it apparently matters
little which browser) from the index page, it records like 4-5 entries
for that index page (GET / with the same IP as the original request,
but no referer after the initial request), one right after the other a
couple of seconds apart. Then if the visitor from that IP goes to any
other page (which logs normally), another 4-5 entries for the index
page (again GET / with no referer) are written into the log. This
seems to happen for every page they go to. It doesn't happen for
everyone, just certain people, I'd say maybe 5%-10% of the traffic.
We do ads on impressions, so what I am curious about is if this is
normal behavior and whether the ads are being run each time
(javascript). There is no other resulting entries with the GET /
commands (as in image loads, etc), just the multiple lines.
Any help would be greatly appreciated in knowing whether I'm just being
paranoid or this is something that is on my server and what to do about
it, if anything?
Thanks
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Re: [users@httpd] Is this normal?
Posted by Victor Trac <vi...@gmail.com>.
My initial thought was perhaps it's a browser accelerator like
FasterFox, but then you would probably notice some patterns based on
browsers. Also you'd probably see more than just the root being
requested.
Where are your ads coming from - same server? What kind of pages are
they? Perhaps if you post the actual logs we can have more insight.
-Victor
On 7/27/06, Keith A <su...@gate.net> wrote:
>
> I am new to this site and have been reading through all the information
> presented here, but my search didn't answer my question.
>
> I run my site on an apache server and I have access to the raw apache
> logs. Lately I've been analyzing these by hand to see a more complete
> picture of where traffic is currently coming from/search etc. rather
> than the monthly summary that Webalizer gives you.
>
> Anyway, if a visitor comes in to the site (and it apparently matters
> little which browser) from the index page, it records like 4-5 entries
> for that index page (GET / with the same IP as the original request,
> but no referer after the initial request), one right after the other a
> couple of seconds apart. Then if the visitor from that IP goes to any
> other page (which logs normally), another 4-5 entries for the index
> page (again GET / with no referer) are written into the log. This
> seems to happen for every page they go to. It doesn't happen for
> everyone, just certain people, I'd say maybe 5%-10% of the traffic.
>
> We do ads on impressions, so what I am curious about is if this is
> normal behavior and whether the ads are being run each time
> (javascript). There is no other resulting entries with the GET /
> commands (as in image loads, etc), just the multiple lines.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated in knowing whether I'm just being
> paranoid or this is something that is on my server and what to do about
> it, if anything?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> --
> Keith A
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Re: [users@httpd] Is this normal?
Posted by Jaqui Greenlees <ja...@yahoo.ca>.
--- Keith A <su...@gate.net> wrote:
>
> I am new to this site and have been reading through
> all the information
> presented here, but my search didn't answer my
> question.
Welcome to the group.
~snip~
>
> Anyway, if a visitor comes in to the site (and it
> apparently matters
> little which browser) from the index page, it
> records like 4-5 entries
> for that index page (GET / with the same IP as the
> original request,
> but no referer after the initial request), one right
> after the other a
> couple of seconds apart. Then if the visitor from
> that IP goes to any
> other page (which logs normally), another 4-5
> entries for the index
> page (again GET / with no referer) are written into
> the log. This
> seems to happen for every page they go to. It
> doesn't happen for
> everyone, just certain people, I'd say maybe 5%-10%
> of the traffic.
Of course it happens for every page.
one requiest for the page file, with referrer.
one request for every single image / video / audio /
flash resource on the page.
you are averaging 5 requests per page, that is a page
and 4 images most likely.
> We do ads on impressions, so what I am curious about
> is if this is
> normal behavior and whether the ads are being run
> each time
> (javascript). There is no other resulting entries
> with the GET /
> commands (as in image loads, etc), just the multiple
> lines.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated in knowing
> whether I'm just being
> paranoid or this is something that is on my server
> and what to do about
> it, if anything?
>don't do anything, it's natural behavior, and exactly
what the logs should be showing.
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