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keyplyr - 1:30 am on Feb 7, 2013 (gmt 0)



Did a count from yesterdays logs. Of the approx 12k in page loads, there were 576k requests. 3k requests had no referrer. Of those, over 2k were blocked by various IP, UA and Header filtering, leaving 1k assumed legit human overall requests. If I blocked referrers for images, that's a hell of a lot of users who would likely never come back and buy anything.

[edited by: keyplyr at 2:02 am (utc) on Feb 7, 2013]


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