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

can you give me a url for Media House Live Stats v5.0?  I did a couple of
quick searches on it and came up w/ nothing.  I am not farmillar with it.
It sounds kinda odd he is there every day for so long on just the main page.
Has his IP addy ever changed?

Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Kear" <choicemag(at)hotmail.com>
To: <hwg(at)myrealbox.com>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 12:07 PM
Subject: 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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