Hit Filters

is there a list?

[followgreg]

I was wondering is someone had a list for common hit filters: Spiders and the like.

I am using webtrends and their mix between robots and human visits drives me nuts :)

[scintex]

Just Google for "Robots list" - you should be able to find something

[cgrantski]

WebTrends also has a premade spiders/bots filter ready to go; go to where you define hit filters of the Browser type and look at the dropdown menu. It's a pretty decent filter.

[followgreg]

>> cgrantski: I didn't see that, well that's great!
It was actually one of the very few issues I could find in WT compared to others.
Thanks!

[cgrantski]

The semi-documented stuff tucked into nooks and crannies of WebTrends still amazes me after 5 years of working with it daily. They are really over the top in terms of adding details, but somewhat underpowered in terms of getting them known.

If you're not already in the WT user forum, you should go there. I'm kinda the representative from there to here (WebmasterWorld) and the real power information happens there. forums.webtrends.com

[followgreg]

Quick question though: it filter hits, but not visits from robots?

It's probably a good idea to go to this forum of theirs.

Webtrends please me also, even though I find it far too expensive, the page view limits are far too low, 20 million pages are very easy to reach in a month or 2. That actually might cause us to drop it for something else unfortunately.

[followgreg]

I can't edit the post for some reason: yes it filters visits... :)