Robin <mixent...@aussiebroadband.com.au> 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.
