“Hits that are done by users, are not registerd as hits.”
I assume you mean logged in users. Check to make sure you haven’t excluded them on the Statistics->Settings->Access/Exclusions page.
“Baidu search engine ip adresses are not Regionized as a search engine, and are counted as hits.”
We don’t exclude search engines based on IP but user agent string, if you’re seeing hits from Baidu that shouldn’t be there you can enable “Store entire user agent string” in the general settings and pull the UA string from the database to find out why it’s not matchning.
“When admin logs in, there are no hits registerd, while you normaly don’t want to see it, we want to see all hits, is this possible?”
Admin users are exlcuded by default, you can change this on the Statistics->Settings->Access/Exclusions page.
“Hits that are done on wp-login.php are not logged. (Maybe on other wordpress php files too, need to look in to that)”
Again see the exclusions page.
“Because the hit statistics are not OK, i would like to an overvieuw of all hits on the website, including bots / search engines etc. So this means an overview (without filter, to see all hits)”
You can enable exclusion tracking on the Statistics->Settings->Access/Exclusions page and then see the exclusions chart for the counts.
Thread Starter
rorror
(@rdehaar)
Hi Greg,
Thanks for your reply, my applogies, totaly did not look at the Settings page. Thats solves a lot of questions.
1.) wp-login.php page is not excluded (but there was an brute-force attac on the file, that was not counted as hits, / exclusions)
2.) I have buaidu spider on my website, totaly ok about that. (even the massive hits are Ok)
– But the browser of baidu is shown in statitics, top country is china.
– baidu hits the site evry min (google and other search engines too, but that is ok)
– China is top visiter at this moment, while there are only some “real visuts”
– So whats the best way to filter out baidu? I still would like to see the hits in the exclusion page. (so i can see a total of hits, on the full site)
Example:
1 minutes ago IP: 220.181.108.149 [block] Hostname: baiduspider-220-181-108-149.crawl.baidu.com
Browser: Firefox version 6.0 running on WinXP
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2
[Block this IP] — [Block this network] — [Run WHOIS on 220.181.108.149] — [See recent traffic]
China Beijing, China visited http://www.xx.xxx/
2 minutes ago IP: 123.125.71.28 [block] Hostname: baiduspider-123-125-71-28.crawl.baidu.com
Browser: Firefox version 6.0 running on WinXP
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2
[Block this IP] — [Block this network] — [Run WHOIS on 123.125.71.28] — [See recent traffic]
China Beijing, China visited http://www.xx.xxx/
2 minutes ago IP: 123.125.71.21 [block] Hostname: baiduspider-123-125-71-21.crawl.baidu.com
China Beijing, China visited http://www.xx.xxx/
3 minutes ago IP: 180.76.5.17 [block] Hostname: baiduspider-180-76-5-17.crawl.baidu.com
Browser: Baiduspider version 2.0
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)
China Beijing, China visited http://www.xx.xxx/
3 mins ago IP: 220.181.108.166 [block] Hostname: baiduspider-220-181-108-166.crawl.baidu.com
Browser: Firefox version 6.0 running on WinXP
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2
– Can provide more log
Hits from china, from today:
* China 980
So all those hits are seen as users i assume?
So whats the best way to exclude this?
1) If it wasn’t recorded it was probably excluded for another reason, most likely it was detected as a robot. If you turn on the exclusion tracking it would have show up in those stats.
2) As Baidu isn’t playing nice and properly identifying itself in the user agent string your choices are limited. You could block the IP addresses but as they change you’d have to update the list. Or you could block all tracking of the user agent string by adding “rv:6.0.2” to the robots list.
Thread Starter
rorror
(@rdehaar)
Thanks for your reply Greg.
Will test this out in the couple of days.
Adding rv:6.0.2 to robots list, can that have side effects? Like user that use firefox version 6.0.2 ?
Well anyway, filtering +/-3-00hits less a day, and maybe filter 2or 3users with it, will still give a more realistic view of hits that users have made.
Tnx for the great plugin
Yes you’ll exclude anyone using FF 6.0.2, but as you said that should be very limited.
Don’t forget to disable “Force robot list update after upgrades” otherwise the additional exclusion will be removed after the next update to WP Statistics (which will be in the next day or so).
I also submitted a ticket to Baidu (http://webmaster.baidu.com/feedback/index), it probably won’t help but it can’t hurt either 😉
Thread Starter
rorror
(@rdehaar)
Tnx, i might take a look at the baidu webmaster account, got all my websites signed up there. Otherwise, i will filterout the ip ranges of baidu, seems they connect from a dozen of subnets.
I forgot indeed the “Force robot list update after upgrades” , i adjusted it.
