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Old 01-16-2014, 01:13 PM   #1
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Say I had a website that was one page, index.php, widely variable in content by url. Say I had 13,000 generic "hits" since the beginning of October. How many would probably be cyberbots?
 
Old 01-16-2014, 01:18 PM   #2
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Say I had a website that was one page, index.php, widely variable in content by url. Say I had 13,000 generic "hits" since the beginning of October. How many would probably be cyberbots?
You don't speculate. You check the user-agents in the web server logs.
 
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Old 01-16-2014, 02:30 PM   #3
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Say I had a website that was one page, index.php, widely variable in content by url. Say I had 13,000 generic "hits" since the beginning of October. How many would probably be cyberbots?
Your question makes little sense. You have one page...but with "widely variable" content?? Are you re-writing the PHP page constantly? And really, it doesn't even MATTER what's on the page, if you're getting hits. This:
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You don't speculate. You check the user-agents in the web server logs.
..would be a VERY obvious place to start for anyone who has a web server and in even vaguely interested in traffic management, and these topics are easily found with a brief Google search. There is NO foolproof way to determine this, since real users can mask their user agents, and bots can easily spoof them. Back to a basic Google search, which would lead you to the Google Analytics page, which can help to break these things down. You're asking for a percentage, and there's no way anyone can answer that.

And didn't you say we should "rest assured" that you were leaving? More than once?

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Old 01-17-2014, 07:21 AM   #4
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Your question makes little sense. You have one page...but with "widely variable" content??
I think index.php is a menu having a list of choices (URLs) that point to widely variable line items.

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And didn't you say we should "rest assured" that you were leaving? More than once?
I would imagine that anyone can get good information on this site - so long as it isn't all controversial.

You could also leave a small honey pot. Say a contact email id and see who are all trying to access your account.

OK

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