Web Server Statistic

[quotealex]

I just got a Web Server Statistic installed by my hosting company called analog4.0/Unix and my hosting company is too green to answer my questions. So I'll ask you guys http://bbs.adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

What is this thing on the Failure Report called "/favicon.ico". What does it do for me?

And who are these browers(spiders?):
- LinkWalker
- User21.ip300.com
- ; CS 2000
- polyBot 1.00
- ia_archiver
- teleport Pro
- vb wininet
- griffon
- Whiskers
- Mercator

THX

[stoney]

favicon is a little image you can put on your server to have show up in your surfers IE favorites.

[richard]

correct, you can make favicon.ico files in painbrush, and upload them to your server root... not sure if their specs though, would have to search yahoo or something.

Of those user_agents, i recognise teleport pro - its a file leach type program, you tell it to get get all the .jpg files from a url, it will even spider the links on your site and leech from those sites.

LinkWalker also rings a bell, though i am not too sure from where.