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I asked this question in the 'tracking and loging' forum some time back and received several helpful guesses, but no one could really explain... why I am constantly seeing:
WYSIWYG 4 [my_domain.com...]
...in my logs? It is always WYSIWYG, followed by some number, then one of my full URLs. This is so prevelant that WYSIWYG sometimes scores high in refer percentages.
Also, the edit button up the top. If anyone installs frontpage (I believe) that is the default editor. It seems to be the default editor in my IE just now.
Most likely, people are saving your pages offline, and having a look with their WYSIWYG editor :). That is definetely one reason for the above
I noticed it especially when I did a website for a sports event, and the url for the ticket information page kept appearing in the logs with the wysiwyg in front of it...It would make sense that people were printing that page.
> ... people were printing that page
Well, I would like to have the printing-paper account then, This is 7 or 8 hundred a day!
Another reason might be people checking that the hyperlinks they create point to the correct site in their editor?
It sounds like something bigger though.....is it WYSIWYG referrer as the program you use also?
No, I use Arachnophilia and EditPad; in addition, I cloak my own IP in the log analysis.
Much of my site is educational. Several dozens of learning institutions maintain links, so I'm also thinking some of these edu resources are pulling my site down and making it available to their LAN users via WYSIWYG editor. This would show as a referrer due to the direct use of my external stylesheets/scripts and may account for the large number of hits. This is just a hunch since I cannot reverse the path.
