Distinguishing human readers from bot traffic with server-side stats

Tracy Durnell · Sep 3 · Discussed on Hacker News · 🏠 IndieWeb · 7 min read

I was looking at my server stats (AWStats) to see if I could identify bot traffic easily. (Spoilers: no.) Basically, I wanted to know how “big” of an issue bot traffic is on my site since I’ve read some general reports from other bloggers. Some people are seeing less traffic because they aren’t gett...

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