After playing around with that script I linked earlier, (mostly repairing the damage that it had endured from being blindly posted to a blog), I’ve managed to integrate it into my AWStats system. As a result, the rampant spam bot activity in my stats has more or less disappeared. I can’t be entirely sure that the script hasn’t filtered out a few genuine users, but even so, it makes me feel like those stats are useful again.

Whether or not the stats in themselves are useful is another question altogether. If nothing else, they help the webmaster measure growth and see what pages are popular and which aren’t. It’s how I know that there’s some interest in the phpBB3 version of the Custom Title MOD, despite my not receiving a single comment about it. In any case, it’ll be exciting to be able to actually follow the stats with some semblance of realism now.

Tags: spam, stats, web

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