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Many length 0:00 visits with 301 pages - what does it mean?

Should I worry about it?

         

silverbytes

4:22 pm on Jul 19, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Hello,
My site .com.x moved to .com time ago. Now there is a lot of 301 redirections on my old .com.x
because I want users and bots let know there is a new site.
However in my log analyzer program I see lots of visits with 0:00 lenght, some has no referer (I guess they type the address, others are Yahoo or other SE results, and most of them points to old pages that are not anymore on my old .com.x server and have permanent redirection.
I see too the name of the old page and the new page in the new server but I don't understand what happens.
Checked redirection and headers and they work, so I'm trying to determine what those 0 visits means...

I'm worried because they are 30% or more of my visits...

Any help please?

nancyb

6:20 pm on Jul 19, 2004 (gmt 0)

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the 301 means your old page was clicked on or typed in and then the browser was redirected to the new location. You would expect the time to be 0:0 since they did not go to the old page.

silverbytes

8:09 pm on Jul 19, 2004 (gmt 0)

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So that entries are ok as long as they are redirecting right?
Is the final page (where 301 points) tracked after that? I mean can I still know if the user stays 1 second or many minutes? Or I just can't because of the 301?

nancyb

9:42 pm on Jul 19, 2004 (gmt 0)

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You should be able to find the redirect in your raw log files and from that you can determine how long they stayed, how many, and which pages they visited.

However, if you are using a third party tracking system, all that information may not show up.