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Analytics shows huge amount of pageviews

The page keeps reloading itself?

         

KeesB

11:01 am on Dec 11, 2014 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hello, i am new here but not new with google analytics.
3 Day's ago i set up my new responsive website live, but since then analytics is showing me crazy traffic peaks what I cannot explain.

It looks like the visitor is watching the same page for 350 times in a minut.

my logging file say's: 

xx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [14:51:18 +0000] "GET /?lang=nl&page=pagename HTTP/1.1" 301 665 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; BTRS124349; GTB7.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; HPNTDF; .NET4.0C)"
xx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [14:51:18 +0000] "GET /pagename/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3833 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; BTRS124349; GTB7.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; HPNTDF; .NET4.0C)"
xx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [14:51:19 +0000] "GET /main.css HTTP/1.1" 200 4053 "http://www.example.com/pagename/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; BTRS124349; GTB7.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; HPNTDF; .NET4.0C)"
xx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [14:51:19 +0000] "GET /?lang=nl&page=pagename HTTP/1.1" 301 664 "http://www.example.com/pagename/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; BTRS124349; GTB7.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; HPNTDF; .NET4.0C)"
xx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [14:51:19 +0000] "GET /?lang=nl&page=pagename HTTP/1.1" 301 665 "http://www.example.com/pagename/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; BTRS124349; GTB7.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; HPNTDF; .NET4.0C)"
xx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [14:51:19 +0000] "GET /picturefill.js HTTP/1.1" 200 3067 "http://www.example.com/pagename/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; BTRS124349; GTB7.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; HPNTDF; .NET4.0C)"
xx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [14:51:19 +0000] "GET /img/sprites.png HTTP/1.1" 200 6922 "http://www.example.com/pagename/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; BTRS124349; GTB7.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; HPNTDF; .NET4.0C)"
xx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [14:51:20 +0000] "GET /picturefill.js HTTP/1.1" 200 3066 "http://www.example.com/pagename/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; BTRS124349; GTB7.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; HPNTDF; .NET4.0C)"
xx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [14:51:20 +0000] "GET /?lang=nl&page=pagename HTTP/1.1" 301 664 "http://www.example.com/pagename/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; BTRS124349; GTB7.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; HPNTDF; .NET4.0C)"
xx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [14:51:20 +0000] "GET /?lang=nl&page=pagename HTTP/1.1" 301 664 "http://www.example.com/pagename/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; BTRS124349; GTB7.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; HPNTDF; .NET4.0C)"
xx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [14:51:20 +0000] "GET /?lang=nl&page=pagename HTTP/1.1" 301 664 "http://www.example.com/pagename/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; BTRS124349; GTB7.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; HPNTDF; .NET4.0C)"



And this last line for 300 times.
/?lang=nl&page=pagename should redirect to example.com/pagename/

Is this the error?
what could this be

copy of my analytics: [i.imgur.com...]

Thanks in advance.

not2easy

2:58 pm on Dec 11, 2014 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Administrator 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



If you have something like a Control Panel, you can view your error logs and see if there are errors that need to be fixed. Something as small as a missing ";" can cause an error. It looks like there may be an error in the redirect because it keeps getting redirected for each part of the page that needs to load. A 301 should only need to redirect once, not repeatedly for every image and css file that is part of your page.

My suggestion: Check the error log first. Then check your 301. One other suggestion is to take that IP that is XXX.XXX'd out here to your faorite WHOIS lookup to be sure it is a human (coming from a telecom/ISP and not a hosting server).

KeesB

3:35 pm on Dec 11, 2014 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hey not2easy,

I have check the error log file and nothing was missing. i have also checked with the Ip adres and it are all 'normal' human ip's.

The htaccess i have checked as well, but i think i have a misconfiguration.

The strange thing is dat it only applies to a few visitors and not all.

Do you know Htaccess and can you take a look if i can post?

not2easy

3:56 pm on Dec 11, 2014 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Administrator 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



Hi KeesB and welcome to the forums. You can get help with questions about htaccess in our Apache Forum here: [webmasterworld.com...]
You can paste the part you want help with in that forum, please replace "your-domain.com" from any pasted code with "example.com" to help save on cleanup work. If you're in a hurry, you can also use the search and possibly find just what you need in a few minutes. Hint: more recent is often more useful.

KeesB

4:34 pm on Dec 11, 2014 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Thank you not2easy,

I will go and have a look!

lucy24

6:20 pm on Dec 11, 2014 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



There's one other thing you can try yourself, though you may sttill end up in Apache:

/?lang=nl&page=pagename


Using a utility such as LiveHeaders, see what happens if you yourself request this URL. You might even throw in User-Agent spoofing (most browsers let you do this) and see if the result is affected.

It looks as if the bit with the query string is the only thing being redirected-- and, interestingly, the redirect shows up both on the first referer-less request and on subsequent requests giving your page as referer.

A 301 should only need to redirect once, not repeatedly for every image and css file that is part of your page.

For future reference, here's your one exception :) A request from an infected browser, using the wrong form of your hostname. Since the 403 is issued before domain-name canonicalization, requests for supporting files used by the 403 page (including the favicon, which may not be explicitly linked at all) will also get a 301 response.

KeesB

3:50 pm on Dec 22, 2014 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Lucy24,

Thank you for your response.
I still have not figure out what is causing the problem.

It does seem to happen a lot less now that the old urls are removed from search engines. but it still happens to much because people have bookmark of shared the old URL.

I am not sure what you mean with:
For future reference, here's your one exception :) A request from an infected browser, using the wrong form of your hostname. Since the 403 is issued before domain-name canonicalization, requests for supporting files used by the 403 page (including the favicon, which may not be explicitly linked at all) will also get a 301 response.


I do see in my log that the favicon can be requested 200 times, or that my sprites.png is being requested 2 times.

Also fiddler is saying something i cant figure out myself: 

Request Count: 1
Bytes Sent:  84(headers:84; body:0)
Bytes Received: 12.103(headers:187; body:11.916)

ACTUAL PERFORMANCE
--------------

NOTE: This request was retried after a Receive operation failed.

ClientConnected:16:52:27.909
ClientBeginRequest:16:52:27.909
GotRequestHeaders:16:52:27.909
ClientDoneRequest:16:52:27.909
Determine Gateway:0ms
DNS Lookup: 0ms
TCP/IP Connect:10ms
HTTPS Handshake:0ms
ServerConnected:16:52:27.919
FiddlerBeginRequest:16:52:27.919
ServerGotRequest:16:52:27.919
ServerBeginResponse:16:52:27.909
GotResponseHeaders:16:52:27.937
ServerDoneResponse:16:52:27.949
ClientBeginResponse:16:52:27.949
ClientDoneResponse:16:52:27.949

Overall Elapsed:0:00:00.039

RESPONSE BYTES (by Content-Type)
--------------
text/html: 11.916
~headers~: 187



I search the web for Receive operation failed, but no luck there.

How should i go from here because i am not sure what you mean and how to take action.

Thanks in advance
 

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