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[SBI! Forums Latest Posts] How to stop referrer SPAM? Bug / Issues with AWSTATS?: On Thursday 28 February 2008 03:00:47, Christopher from topflightmarketing.com posted "How to stop referrer SPAM? Bug / Issues with AWSTATS?" in "Integrating 3rd Party Resources" Forum.

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 [Notes, links and conversation] Refer(r)er* spam and visitor statistics: Reports based on the webserver logs, such as produced by Webalizer or AWstats, become harder to interpret. Referer spam is not the only issue: the number of machines hitting your webserver is growing faster than the number of human .

 [ebyblog] Mint: Some Tasty Stats: By much more I don’t mean as much as AWStats, etc though you can practically make it that much if you want to using Pepper add-ons. More about those later.

 [rianjs.net] New things: polyscience.org and awstats: Hopefully my stats will be a little bit more useful to me from now on. Right now, the referrer section is nothing but online gambling sites.

 [RAA] referrercop: Run your logs through ReferrerCop either before or after they’re processed by AWStats (or before they’re processed by any other log analyzer) to eliminate annoying referrer spam from your web statistics.

[drupal.org - Drupal 4.7.x] Bots are hitting my site hard, what can I do?: I've also been getting hammered with referrer spam flat out, and at a guess 95% of the referrers in my Drupal log are spam. My Drupal watchdog logs are also full of access denied and page not found messages, and from the looks of the .

 [Ohloh Projects Feed] ReferrerCop: Cleans referrer spam from Apache logs and AWStats data files.

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