Re: User connected for long periods ... any ideas?

It's Media House Live Stats v5.0

And right now, the package says this about that particular user:

<ip address>  NET: <name of his host computer>  RDNS: n/a
Origin:   Sao Tome    Time:   641 min   Hits / Kb:    412 / 6298.53Kb


So, for now he's been attached in a session for 641minutes, he's hit the 
page 412 times, and downloaded 6.2MB.

A "session" expires after fifteen minutes of inactivity, meaning no hits 
have been made on the Web site for 15 minutes.

So why would one computer want to keep hitting our site  hour after hour on 
the same page?

Cheers,
Mike Kear
AFP Web Development
Windsor, NSW, Australia
http://www.afp.zip.com.au


>From: "Timothy G. Embler" <hwg(at)myrealbox.com>
>To: "Mike Kear" <choicemag(at)hotmail.com>, <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>Subject: Re: User connected for long periods ... any ideas?
>Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:53:52 -0800
>
>What stat software are you using?  I dont know of any that shows how long
>someone has an http connection to a certain page...
>
>Tim
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mike Kear" <choicemag(at)hotmail.com>
>To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 10:37 AM
>Subject: User connected for long periods ... any ideas?
>
>
> > You people are pretty knowledgeable about e-commerce sites, so perhaps 
>you
> > can give me some ideas here .....
> >
> >
> > My usage stats tell me I have a user who comes to my site every day and
> > stays connected for long periods.  Usually 8-9 hours (once it was 14
>hours).
> >   It's not in the pay part of the site, just the default.htm home page,
>and
> > I'm not sure I can find a rational explanation for it at the moment.
> >
> > The user is in Africa, and the site (www.choice.com.au) is directed at
> > Australians, being an Australian Consumer Rights organisation.  There's 
>no
> > apparent attack or attempt at hacking into the pay areas of the site, 
>and
> > the user doesn't go to other pages - just the main home page.   I really
> > can't see what is happening here.
> >
> > I don't want to put a block on this user's ip address unless I can see
> > there's something underhanded going on.
> >
> > And in any case, how can it be that this user shows as being connected 
>all
> > that time?  How come it doesnt time out?
> >
> > Anyone got any ideas?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mike Kear
> > AFP Web Development
> > Windsor, NSW, Australia
> > http://www.afp.zip.com.au
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