Quite a few people have told me that my unique hits throughout the day are nothing more than crawlers and spiders. I can honestly tell you that this is truly not the case at all. I have quite a few stat based programs setup on my domain and each program calculates the true statistics (ip address, referrals, etc) of every visitor that my domain receives. Only 8% of my daily visitors are crawler based. This means that 92% of my daily hits are, in fact, human. For every 100 visitors, 8 of them are bots; this goes on to mean that for every 1,000 visitors to my site (which is about half of my daily average) only 80 of them are bots.
So please, would you care to explain how advertisers and fellow bloggers alike can claim that true unique hits are nothing more than bots?
I don’t know who is a bot and who’s not on my site. Then again, I don’t even look. As long as I get comments xD.
Thats good to know. I watch my stats close also and i can tell that most are human visitors.
I think we are all driving ourselves crazy with this PR stuff. If we have interesting things to say on our blogs, people will come back to read them.