search engine robots vs real users

Usage Statistics for blue.paulbeard.org – February 2003

I had considered removing search engine hits from my logs and from my traffic reports, just to be sure I was measuring actual readers.

But I see from this report that, contrary to what I believed, robots are not the bulk of my traffic. Looks like less than 25%. Still high but not the majority as I was thinking it might be.

I may still extend the lines that block NIMDA but it’s not as urgent as it was.