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catharsis · 01-26-2005, 11:55 AM

Hey guys, got a quick question here. I seem to be getting a lot of "fake" traffic and I am wondering if this is a standard browser behaviour, bug or a bot posing as a visitor. I get in my logs, people that repeatedely ask for the "/" document but then don't download anything: no images, no css, nothing else. Example logs are shown below:

209.28.22.13 - - [26/Jan/2005:13:43:44 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 9883 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0"
209.28.22.13 - - [26/Jan/2005:13:43:50 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 9883 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0"
209.28.22.13 - - [26/Jan/2005:13:43:56 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 9883 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0"
209.28.22.13 - - [26/Jan/2005:13:44:06 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 9883 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0"
209.28.22.13 - - [26/Jan/2005:13:44:34 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 9883 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0"
209.28.22.13 - - [26/Jan/2005:13:44:39 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 9883 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0"

Notice the seconds apart in requesting the / document but nothing else! I am asking because I have been arguing with business.com for over 1 month about this. My CPC with them is around 2.5$ and they charge me for hundreds of clicks that I don't even consider real clicks, just like above!! I tried reasoning with them but they claim those are still real visitors. Anyone knows what causes the pattern above to happen ?

Thanks!

01-26-2005, 11:55 AM
catharsis Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 58	"fake" traffic ? what is this ? Hey guys, got a quick question here. I seem to be getting a lot of "fake" traffic and I am wondering if this is a standard browser behaviour, bug or a bot posing as a visitor. I get in my logs, people that repeatedely ask for the "/" document but then don't download anything: no images, no css, nothing else. Example logs are shown below: 209.28.22.13 - - [26/Jan/2005:13:43:44 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 9883 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0" 209.28.22.13 - - [26/Jan/2005:13:43:50 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 9883 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0" 209.28.22.13 - - [26/Jan/2005:13:43:56 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 9883 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0" 209.28.22.13 - - [26/Jan/2005:13:44:06 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 9883 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0" 209.28.22.13 - - [26/Jan/2005:13:44:34 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 9883 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0" 209.28.22.13 - - [26/Jan/2005:13:44:39 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 9883 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0" Notice the seconds apart in requesting the / document but nothing else! I am asking because I have been arguing with business.com for over 1 month about this. My CPC with them is around 2.5$ and they charge me for hundreds of clicks that I don't even consider real clicks, just like above!! I tried reasoning with them but they claim those are still real visitors. Anyone knows what causes the pattern above to happen ? Thanks!