HitCount Plugin

[yojoe]

I think that if the user calls a non-existing page and gets a 404 response, GetSimple sets the URL to 404 and thus a hit of the page 404 is logged. There is no way to find out, which non-existent page caused the 404, but you can search the hitcount logs to see the referers.

I checked log from 2 days ago, and it would only make sens if GS would guess the right uri and redirect to it instead of serving 404.
Example fragment

Code:

1333458427    72    404    http://getsimple.wujitsu.pl/bluebusiness/en/news    Mozilla/5.0    (Windows    NT    6.1)    AppleWebKit/535.11    (KHTML,    like    Gecko)        Iron/17.0.1000.0    Chrome/17.0.1000.0    Safari/535.11    (en-US,en;q=0.8)
1333458427    72    404    http://getsimple.wujitsu.pl/bluebusiness/en/news    Mozilla/5.0    (Windows    NT    6.1)    AppleWebKit/535.11    (KHTML,    like    Gecko)        Iron/17.0.1000.0    Chrome/17.0.1000.0    Safari/535.11    (en-US,en;q=0.8)
1333433678    65    404    http://getsimple.wujitsu.pl/bluebusiness/theme/Bluebusiness/css/style.css    Mozilla/5.0    (X11;    Ubuntu;    Linux    x86_64;    rv:11.0)    Gecko/20100101    Firefox/11.0    (de)
1333432980    64    404    http://getsimple.wujitsu.pl/bluebusiness/en/bluebusiness-installation    Mozilla/5.0    (Macintosh;    Intel    Mac    OS    X    10_7_3)    AppleWebKit/535.19    (KHTML,    like    Gecko)    Chrome/18.0.1025.142    Safari/535.19    (en-US,en;q=0.8)
1333405812    56    404    http://getsimple.wujitsu.pl/bluebusiness/theme/Bluebusiness/css/style.css    Mozilla/5.0    (Windows    NT    6.1;    rv:11.0)    Gecko/20100101    Firefox/11.0    (pl,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3)

All links are fine, files and pages are on their places (especially .css).
Those 404 in hitcount logs are odd.

The lines in the diagram are stacked, e.g. 3 requests for page1, 2 requests for page2, then the line for page2 goes through y=2+3=5.
It's especially useful with "relativ", e.g. if you view the 3 most popular pages, you will then see the total percentage of those 3 pages.

That clearly explains and makes sense. Thanks for precious informations.



I wanted to ask also about blacklisting. If you are familiar with piwik analytics then you know that there's an option which sets a cookie in users browser, to prevent counting visits when using this particular browser.
Blacklist functionality in hitcount is great, but it just can't prevent counting visits of website's owner with a dynamic IP address. What do you think about such feature ? GS sets its own cookie after successful login, but using it wouldn't cover the matter in 100%.