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---- Human visits and robots visits


larryn - 1:26 pm on Sep 20, 2004 (gmt 0)


Enrique,

What I do is three-fold: first I check for visitors that request 'robots.txt'; next I check the user agent (browser) for telltales such as 'bot' or 'spider' or 'crawler', etc; finally, I look for a very fast series of requests for pages.

Hope that helps,

Larry


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