Re: Need suggestion about what's going on
On 06/03/14 15:04, lina wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use Ghostery with firefox.
Ghostery, Firefox... Debian??
Do you mean Iceweasel?
I don't understand why people run Firefox in Debian... I run the latest
Iceweasel - it's the same version as Firefox and any differences are to
my advantage (mutter, mutter, sigh) :)
> So when I visited my own testing homepage,
> the google analytic won't have a record. But I also keep a short script
> to record who visited my homepage at the serve side.
>
> This morning, I opened my browser, just to read couple of news. And from
> google analytic I noticed someone who visited my page around 10am. After
> further check, it showed me it's exactly from my own laptop.
> As indicated at 10:48:28
>
> 2014-03-06 10:48:28 172.21.100.159
> 2014-03-06 11:04:12 172.21.100.159
> 2014-03-06 11:08:51 172.21.100.159
Are you certain that's *your* IP address?
>
> I was surprise, certainly I didn't browse my homepage at that time,
> neither I had some TAB opened in firefox, so I checked the history of
> today from firefox, except couple of news-site I visited, I am sure that
> I didn't visit my own page at that time.
>
> At 11:04:12 I visited my homepage, and I checked google analytics, it
> didn't have my record, so the Ghostery still works very well. But later
> surprisingly, at 11:08:51 there is another visit without my
> real-involvement, and it is from my own laptop, but not from my opening
> firefox.
Now I'm confused - how do you "visit" your homepage without "opening
firefox". Do you use ssh? If so, does your "script" not log that visit also?
>
> I am confused. Any suggestion about what's going on.
Sure - look at the difference between when you visited from that IP
address, and when your log says you visited that IP address. If it's
consistent (and I'd bet it was - if I was a gambler) then you'll
probably find the difference is due to system time settings.
If Ghostery doesn't trigger the Google Analytics javascript then I
assume you are getting your script data from apache logs - so your visit
would have to appear in the logs - if you visited twice then it should
appear twice, if appeared three times *then* I'd be concerned.
>
> Thanks with best regards,
>
>
Kind regards
Kind regards
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