Hit count from Google cache.

Why is this?

[twilight47]

Has this always been this way?
If I look at the cache of our index page it registers a hit in the stats.
Why would this be, especially since the cached page is a few weeks old? What's the connection between my current page and Google old cache of the page?

Anyone...anyone...Bueller...?

[Brett_Tabke]

What type of counter is it?

[keeper]

I know the Google cache pulls images from your server. This will cause a "hit" for every image or linked file you had on your index page.

Perhaps that is the "hit" that you are seeing.

[edited by: keeper at 4:18 am (utc) on June 26, 2003]

[Brett_Tabke]

Ya, if you switched the style of counter from say js to image, that could make the difference. Or there could also be frames, or iframe includes?

>images

A good way to deduce how many page views the Google cache gets ;-)

[twilight47]

I get it.
Thanks for the info.
I see. It must be pulling a current image from a javascript mouseover, because that image is current even when you mouseover in the cache file.

Thanks a bunch. I'll be able to sleep better now. :)

[vincevincevince]

using your logs, or a php module, could fix this problem

[DeFresto]

That are mostly webmaster hits %)
That means that webmasters like your site and want to see it with google's eyes ;)

I have noticed I'm getting a lot of such hits when my site is high in SERPS and none if it's low.

[HitProf]

>I have noticed I'm getting a lot of such hits when my site is high in SERPS and none if it's low.

Hey, is that different from normal hits? :)

[vincevincevince]

not sure if they are webmaster hits - maybe the high placement means that your site is slow to load under the higher load? so users load the comparatively faster cache to see if the page is what they want?

[starec]

I always try to include the cached pageviews into the pageviews statistics, they belong to me, not to google...

As a user, I have been using for months almost exclusively the cached content when searching. It usually loads faster than the original, and it highlights the keywords I've been looking for.

Looking at my stats page, long gone are the days when that "cached" link was used only by webmasters...