tracking browser lang on TGP, measuring traffic quality
 

I came up with a quick and dirty system to try to assign a basic value to the surfer, based on the browser language...

green (good): en
yellow (still reasonably useful): de es fr pt nl it sv
red (probably junk): the rest

I've written a script to parse my language logs and match up the surfer 'colours' to the trades domains. Here's an example of the output based on the past 24 hours:

****.com 8914 hits, G: 4461 (50.04%), Y: 2871 (32.21%), R: 1582 (17.75%)
****.com 6376 hits, G: 3374 (52.92%), Y: 1943 (30.47%), R: 1059 (16.61%)
****.com 2375 hits, G: 1239 (52.17%), Y: 601 (25.31%), R: 535 (22.53%)

As you can see with these trades, up to 80% of their traffic is acceptable. Just about all them are like this, but my script clearly shows an odd one out:

****.com 1849 hits, G: 492 (26.61%), Y: 372 (20.12%), R: 985 (53.27%)

Only 27% 'en' traffic and more than half of the remainder is junk. These percentages remain fairly consistent even if I back-track over 2 million page loads, so it looks like that trade is deliberately sending a lot of non-en traffic. :(

I think I might develop this script a little further, make up some nice graphs so that I can spot at a glance when things are not right...

There are indeed some TGP webmasters who send their foreign traffic directly to their trades.

Measuring quality on "browser language" field is not the wisest thing to do...

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Agreed, but it's a start. I just wanted a quick and dirty way to analyse my logs after some discussion of traffic makeup in another thread (re Choker selling non English traffic to feed TGPs). The green/yellow/red concept could easily be extended to IP geo targeting.

Oh yeah, thanks for your input, danarchy...

You should check on IP range.

For the record, I do not recomend people flood their trades with a lot of foreign traffic. reference http://chickentraffic.com/test.htm

If your TGP is 100k a day, a extra 10k to trades a day of any specific language is acceptable. For your trades if they do not want this traffic, then they can do what most TGPS are doing anyway, they can redirect them to a isolated page and jerk them around some.