Re: [Summary-Talk] Lots of trash in reports

[Jason Linhart <summary@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robot filtering isn't working because you don't have agent information
in your log files. You should look into switching your server to a log
format that includes agent information as that information is used in
several of the reports. You are also missing referrer information, which
is even more useful.

It is also curious that your server is counting requests to all of those
requests as valid. Most servers would return 404 - Not Found errors in
response to requests for those strange URLs (which would keep them out
of the report you pointed us at). Perhaps there is some server setting
that you have misconfigured.

Jason


"Phil St. Romain" wrote:
> 
> My Summary reports have so many files and folders not hosted on my
> server as to be useless. I've tried filtering out the
> more common ones but it's a losing battle.  I've also tried filtering
> out robots, but the result is that nothing shows up on my report.
> 
> - The files and folders showing up are stuff like "search.php" and
> "/smbill/" and so forth.  Probably robots probing the site, but, as I
> say, filtering out bots cancels out everything.
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