How to interpret this log?

[flowermark]

I've noticed a marked increase in Google Cached pages links as my top referring URLs. In fact, 20% of the traffic I get from Google are from 2-3 links from these cahced pages of my website.

What does it mean when a lot of your visitors are visting your website via Google Cached pages? Does that mean your page is loading too slow or too often down?

This is the kind of links I've been getting:

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:ro9YyOGpCwwJ:www.example.com/html.php+
keyword1+keyword2+keyword3&hl=en

One thing that is strange is that while I'm getting good traffic from Google SERPs from hundreds of keywords, these cached Google pages always focus on 3 or 4 of the SAME pages. In fact, my stats show people are visiting my site through the same cached pages 100-200 times a day. That doesn't seem natural.

Are these actual human beings or is this some diagnostic by Google?

[Matt Probert]

What does it mean when a lot of your visitors are visting your website via Google Cached pages? Does that mean your page is loading too slow or too often down?

It means that Google is sending it's cached copy of your page rather than directing people to your server. It's normal. Lots of ISPs along the chain use caches, otherwise the entire Internet would grind to a halt!

By implication, notice that many visitors don't actually appear in your logs, rather they received more local cached copies of your pages.

Matt

[anand84]

hey this is worrying...the host i planned to use doesnt provide referrers, but i thought since google would anyway provide me for their adwords, i need not worry. Now how will i know where these extra visitors came from..

[flowermark]

Thanks Mat. You've certainly put my mind at ease. That's great information.

[Tidal2]

Does that mean if you have blocked hotlinking for graphics that these cache visitors will see little red x's instead of the graphics. If it does I see a good reason blocking caching.