very unusual spike in Stats
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Hi, I had unusual spike of traffic on the 4 of Dec. Are you aware of any reasons why would that be? I usually get on average 50 views per day and on that day I had over 2000 views.
Many thanks,
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This has happened to a few of our users, and our systems team traced it to an Internet Explorer toolbar called FunWebProducts. When a person using the toolbar visits your page, any image from Yahoo on your page generates a spike in visits. It’s not spam or anything malicious on your own computer or your blog. You can safely disregard it, but thanks for letting us know ;-).
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Is there any way this “traffic” could be removed from the stats as it is skewing the numbers and is making it impossible to read the stats and report the true traffic?
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It’s not possible to remove this because one of your blog images simply appeared in the Yahoo images results. It probably spiked on that day b/c there were a lot of media articles a day or two earlier about ancient palace ruins being discovered in China.
The search phrase for the image search is “palace ruins found”. I think it’s likely that it’s an image on this post:
http://mytravelwanders.com/2012/03/17/palenque/I found this by following these steps:
1. Click on the spike in the graph
2. Under the Referrers module, click on “Search Engines” (because I saw 2,025 at the right)
3. Click on Yahoo Image Search (1,967 at right) – notice also “palace ruins found” as top result under Search Engine Terms at the right
4. In Yahoo search bar, enter palace ruins found mytravelwandersThe results show the same images from this post:
http://mytravelwanders.com/2012/03/17/palenque/There isn’t really anything we can do about it, but those are the steps I use to track a spike down.
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