Re: [Vo]:The Fate of Dr. Ning Li

[Jed Rothwell]

That is very interesting! And sad. I wonder how much truth there is to
reports of antigravity? Perhaps we will never know . . .

Re: [Vo]:LENR-CANR.org downloads increased by ~14,000

[Jed Rothwell]

Robin  wrote:


> >I exclude robot readers after identifying them by various methods.
>
> Why would you exclude them? Surely allowing access would ensure that
> people doing searches would be more likely to find
> the site?
>

I do not want to include them because that would exaggerate the number of
readers. The Google-bot and others come by often, and they read the same
files again and again. Programs such as Weblog Expert and Awstats also try
to remove them. Awstats groups them under "Robots/Spiders visitors."

I wrote my own log analysis programs. I use these other programs from time
to time, to compare the results.

Re: [Vo]:LENR-CANR.org downloads increased by ~14,000

[Robin]

In reply to  Jed Rothwell's message of Tue, 1 Aug 2023 17:34:19 -0400:
Hi Jed,
[snip]
>I exclude robot readers after identifying them by various methods. 

Why would you exclude them? Surely allowing access would ensure that people 
doing searches would be more likely to find
the site?
Buy electric cars and recharge them from solar panels on your roof.

[Vo]:LENR-CANR.org downloads increased by ~14,000

[Jed Rothwell]

Since Jan. 2021, the average number of downloads at LENR-CANR.org per month
has been 9,085. It has been trending up recently. In July 2023 it suddenly
increased to 27,848, a level it has not reached since Jan. 2017. See:

https://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/?page_id=1213

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CwBlnYM7IFRjYCQcJ0OGjt-vRbbzqvm6T2Uk4YYsii0/edit#gid=0

I do not know what is causing this. I can sometimes identify the source of
an increase, for example, in a mass media article. But not this time. There
has also been an increase in the number of people viewing the YouTube video.

Most of the increase comes from readers who download all of the papers.
They are from many parts of the world. I checked carefully, and I confirmed
these are not robot readers from Google or some other web indexing robot.
They are humans from various ISPs. I checked many of the ISPs. They include
things like GOOGL-2, which is a cloud server for people and corporations,
definitely not for a Google robot. Google publishes a list of their robot
ISPs.

Some of the human readers probably used programs such as Web Reaper, which
downloads files en masse. You can tell they are not robot readers.

I exclude robot readers after identifying them by various methods. The
easiest method is to look at the records. They often include text
identifying the reader as a robot, with names such as:

www.google.com/bot.html
help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp
search.msn.com/msnbot.htm
www.alltheweb.com/help/webmaster/crawler

I have identified 131 of these.