Bots and search engines

I can't find any info about visits to the website by search engines and other bots in the Common Questions.

Are these visits to my website included in the stats or not? From one of the other forum replies it seemed like they were excluded but I'm not sure???

Thanks

They are not included for the most part, because most of them do not interact with javascript. But most people consider this a good thing.

I agree with our Friendly Clicky Admin on this one. Stats that included the Bots always provide inaccurate information as to the Actual numbers of visitors. I use my hosting companies Internal stats to get the information on Bots.

My host has Awstats built into their C-Panel so it is easily accessed. Of course, Awstats doesn't hold a candle to Clicky.

i´m pretty sorry, but since 3 days there is a massive visit by bots (google) and they´re not excluded.
on bigger sites there is a difference about 5-10%
on smaller sites to 30% daily
with "bots" every stat is for trash ;)

can you explain that? i think, i´m not alone with this fact.

Hi Friendly Clicky Admin

That's what I hoped as I want to know the number of 'real' visitors

Thanks for the confirmation

@leisure if you're using the noscript tracking functionality, you may see more bots than you would otherwise, since that works with just an image instead of javascript.

A Web crawler is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner or in an orderly fashion. Other terms for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, [1] or Web spiders, Web robots, or—especially in the FOAF community—Web scutters[2].
This process is called Web crawling or spidering. Many sites, in particular search engines, use spidering as a means of providing up-to-date data. Web crawlers are mainly used to create a copy of all the visited pages for later processing by a search engine that will index the downloaded pages to provide fast searches. Crawlers can also be used for automating maintenance tasks on a Web site, such as checking links or validating HTML code. Also, crawlers can be used to gather specific types of information from Web pages, such as harvesting e-mail addresses (usually for spam).


____________________________________________________



Want to get-on Google's first page and loads of traffic to your website? Hire a SEO Specialist from Ocean Groups [url=http://oceangroups.org/] seo pecialist [/url]

Allright, I am a paying Woopra customer and I am looking for another analytics which deals with bots. So far I see bots in my Woopra stats marked as visitors. Reading this here I see that getclicky has the same problem. Too bad.

We try to block most "annoying" bots by default, so at least we're trying. I have no idea if Woopra does anything like that or not. But I rarely rarely see any bots in the sites that I track with Clicky.

With our prev analytics bots where at least reported so we can track what the yahoo and google bot crawled

I need to track spam bot activity as it happens, so I can block them. Therefore, the fact that automated bots are filtered out, with no option for me to allow them or disallow them manually, is a drawback.

Woopra are absolutely hopeless. They have know about these bots and ive pointed out the ip range yet they do nothing in months.

Not to mention they have no real goal tracking, ecommerce tracking, etc. When u ask then fir support they point u inthe direction of some vague FAQ that makes no sense.

As far as I can see, clicky isn't counting these new google bots.