ever look at your server stats...
 

and see a lot of (or at least, more than i'd like) people using things like wget? ugh, that sucks.

and what the fuck is "Internet Ninja"???

Looks like Internet Ninja is some kind of Mac browser or Mac browser addon - http://www.ifour.co.jp/ininja/documents/down_mac4.htm

whats a server stat?

ahh.. that's a new page, i got another one in japanese as well that looks like it may be available for a lot of wireless devices like pdas and such. however, google only comes up with japanese stuff.. so yay foreign traffic!

These are stats you get from your hosting service about what's going on on your server. These stats are generally much more accurate than the web-based stats, such as FoxCounter or SexList, or SexTracker. But those are better than nothing if you can't get server stats.

i usually use both, so i can have a combination. webalizer is pretty good, but doesn't really have _everything_ i want to know, so combining that with foxcounter works pretty good on knowing where everything is coming and going, bandwidth usage, etc.

viva webalizer :)

block those progs from htaccess

Urchin and Flashstats are good proggies for monitoring your traffic as well.

Take Care,

-Kel

" ever look at your server stats... "

Never occurred to me :-) Ask me again in a year :-) Thanks!

the internet? what the fuck is the internet?

have a good htaccess that blocks the browser leaches that you would like to share with the world?

Blocking useragents is a losing and foolish battle. You'll get some short term satisfaction and save a little on bandwidth, but you'll just encourage people to use misleading useragents in their spiders/suckers. I for one would rather know that is actually hitting my pages.

I looked at mines for the first time last nite, interesting shit:glugglug

only when my sales are going down.. :)

every day, its a big part of site optimization.

also make sure to regularly check your server load