Re: Site stats question

Could this be happening with spiders?  Or lets say that someone has a link
to
your page and they have frames..  and they keep their frame but one frame
changes
to your site...  could this be a possibility?

Just throwing out ideas..

Woody

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Huggins" <RyanHuggins(at)prodigy.net>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 2:11 AM
Subject: RE: Site stats question


> I'm not your hoster, but I think that welcome.html would have to be on
your
> system to be reported.  Granted some systems use welcome.html as the main
> page (can't think of any off hand, but I'm sure they exist), I've never
> heard of a stats program using synonyms.  As far as the Chinese page, I've
> had a few odd ones in my time too.  I had some company selling RIO
players,
> and this week I had Yahoo.com come up as frequently accessed pages.  What
> I've determined is that someone did some weird typing into the URL.  My
> hoster and myself don't know how they do it, but my logs show a GET
command
> with Yahoo.com  I've checked all my source code, and I don't link to them.
> I have decided that it's just a fluke.
>
>   HTH,
>
>     Ryan
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 00:17:16 -0330
> From: "Vincent, Denise" <deevin(at)mun.ca>
> Subject: Site stats question
>
>
> I hope this isn't off-topic. I was looking at my site stats today, and I
> noticed that the most accessed page was something called 'welcome.html'.
> There isn't a page called that anywhere in my site, so I contacted my
> hosting provider and he said 'Oh, that's just another word for
index.html'.
> What?
>
> Anyway, there's also a page listing under my stats for a Chinese Web site.
I
> have no idea why that would be listed under *my* page stats. So, when
asked,
> my hosting provider gave me the run around a few more times. Finally, he
> said "there is either someone linking to a page that no longer is there or
> your listed on search engine to that page. I really dont know any more
then
> this."
>
> This still doesn't make any sense to me. All that's supposed to be listed
> are the most frequently accessed pages on my Web site. I don't understand
> why this Chinese web site's welcome page is showing up there. Does anyone
> have any possible explanations? I'm starting to think that maybe my
hosting
> provider is doing something 'funny'.
>
>
> - - Denise
>

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