To all, especially Stephen, for discussion:
Intention:
For those webmasters which have to pay for their bandwidth,
it's always nice to recognize dissipation of it.
Case in point:
Many different engines visit our websites with
agents/spiders/robots to build indizes or whatever. The well
behaved one's consult /robots.txt before doing so. These
traversals can consume a considerable part of the bandwidth.
In turn they deliver visits by real people. But the proportion
of bytes_transferred/referrals_seen varies wildly and from site
to site. (I've seen figures from some kB/ref. to many, many MB for
(nearly) nothing. This means about 3..4 orders of magnitude.)
Suggested feature:
- (Jointly) maintained list of agents in a format appropriate
for usage in a special HOST-report ("Agentreport") and
REFERRER-report ("Searchenginereport")
(I think I'd be able to administer such a list and make it
available, provided there are enough 'analogists' to supply
the data.)
- Derivated report or additional column in the HOST-report:
Bytes/referral using some additional ownershipinfo
(Which agent(s) belong(s) to that/these engine(s))
Value:
We could easily monitor the performance/cost of the engines
for our site(s). In case of abuse (transfering many bytes
without giving value for it) we could investigate these or
in extrem cases even lock them out.
Sincerely
--
Kay Wischkony IKWT-Kay Wischkony
Tel. +49-(0)5 31-57 67 60 Alerdsweg 16
FAX +49-(0)5 31-57 67 61 D-38118 Braunschweig
http://bs.cyty.com/ikwt Deutschland / Germany
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