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04-05-2001, 09:00 AM
I recently noticed some sites with a very low productivity. I could not see what the problem was looked through everything.
Suddently I remembered a small detail with favicon.ico
Not many sites have a favicon.ico uplaoded so people that redirect all their 404's to their OUT script will automaticly generate 1 fake hit for each IE bookmarker they have.
IE. John Doe has www.somesite.com (http://www.somesite.com) bookmarked. When he open it from his bookmarks IE will call http://www.somesite.com/favicon.ico to display a nice icon in the address bar. But if the webmaster did not upload a favicon.ico that hit will be redirected to /cgi-bin/out.cgi resulting in 1 fake hit out with 0% productivity.
I suggest EVERYONE that is using .htaccess to redirect to their out script (mainly blindIO users) stop doing it or upload that damn favicon.ico or start redirecting only from a subdir /xxx/ or something (will also avoid problems with broken graphics etc)
Thanks.
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Suddently I remembered a small detail with favicon.ico
Not many sites have a favicon.ico uplaoded so people that redirect all their 404's to their OUT script will automaticly generate 1 fake hit for each IE bookmarker they have.
IE. John Doe has www.somesite.com (http://www.somesite.com) bookmarked. When he open it from his bookmarks IE will call http://www.somesite.com/favicon.ico to display a nice icon in the address bar. But if the webmaster did not upload a favicon.ico that hit will be redirected to /cgi-bin/out.cgi resulting in 1 fake hit out with 0% productivity.
I suggest EVERYONE that is using .htaccess to redirect to their out script (mainly blindIO users) stop doing it or upload that damn favicon.ico or start redirecting only from a subdir /xxx/ or something (will also avoid problems with broken graphics etc)
Thanks.
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