question about hotlinking and stats

Trickac14 · 08-21-2008, 11:45 AM

If I'm using a proxy template that say a lot of people have, will this make it to where a lot of my images will be hotlinked?

And if so, will this show a lot of unique visitors from that than there really are?

shockie · 08-21-2008, 09:58 PM

it depends on what software you're using to count unique visitors.

Chronos · 08-21-2008, 11:08 PM

If you have a hosting with cpanel, check for the latest visitors logs.

You will see who is hotlinking and what images are being affected.

You can always prevent this, regarless if you have a proxy or not, by setting up a rewrite .htaccess rule to prevent bandwidth thievering.

weblord · 08-21-2008, 11:12 PM

it's going to turn out hits not uniques if they're just hotlinking you.

Trickac14 · 08-22-2008, 09:01 AM

Ok thanks all. But I know something is fishy when I have this proxy going, because the thing says i'll have dang near 9,000 uniques in 1 day and then google analytics and adsense will show around 200 impressions and thats it. Then when my host suspended me I put it up on parked and some days it got around 500 visitors but thats the max. Does anyone know whats going on with this?

shockie · 08-22-2008, 10:44 AM

i'd go with the analytics / adsense figures for actual real-person visits.

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Trickac14 NamePros Regular Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: TEXAS Posts: 462	Ok thanks all. But I know something is fishy when I have this proxy going, because the thing says i'll have dang near 9,000 uniques in 1 day and then google analytics and adsense will show around 200 impressions and thats it. Then when my host suspended me I put it up on parked and some days it got around 500 visitors but thats the max. Does anyone know whats going on with this?

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