Statistics - referral spam

Posted by wiiiktor on Sunday December 16, 2012 @05:14PM
from the self-post dept.

I have a website efneo.com and I see that I have lots of visits from http://news.ycombinator.com/ domain. Are they real? 5000 in a day? I doubt it; it seems to be rather created by a bot. Can you explain it? If this is Your bot making my statistics false, than please change the app behaviour.

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Re:Statistics - referral spam by kfullert on Sunday December 16, 2012 @05:18PM (#4929799)

I think it was featured as an article on the front page, which would have driven a lot of traffic to your site (both from regular "real" visitors, and from scrapers etc.)

The original submission was http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4926541 so you'd see that as the referer

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