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Livebot shows up as a visitor

(7 posts)
  • Started 5 months ago by helinus
  • Latest reply from tranz
  • This topic is not a support question

  • Johan
    Member

    Microsoft Live Search's Livebot shows up as a regular visitor on my site.

    Posted 5 months ago #

  • MrJef
    Member

    That is a good thing! That means the Live Search spider is crawling your site to add to the Live Search (http://www.live.com) index

    Posted 5 months ago #

  • Johan
    Member

    What i mean is that Woopra thinks Livebot is a person and shows it as a visitor instead of excluding it like Woopra does with Googlebot

    Posted 5 months ago #

  • John P.
    Chief Cat Herder

    If Livebot is being shown, it's reading the javascript. Most bots won't execute js, so that is why they don't show up.

    Personally I think that is great. You can see how often it crawls the site. Next time you see it there, just tag it and you can keep track of it! :-)

    John

    Posted 5 months ago #

  • Johan
    Member

    But it makes the stats useless when it uses 800x600 resolution on Windows Server 2003 as i like to see what resolutions my visitors are using, and a bot doesn't see the site visually.

    Posted 5 months ago #

  • robferrer
    Member

    This bot has been visiting my blog more and more. I'd love for this to be removed from the stats - it's really skewing them for my blog (which doesn't have that much traffic). For example, it now shows that 17.6% of my visitors have 800x600!

    Tagging the bot won't work because it shows up as a new visitor each time (often from a different IP address, and presumably using a different cookie).

    The bot also uses bogus referrers, and doesn't announce the fact it's a bot in the user agent.

    Posted 3 months ago #

  • Tranz
    Member

    I have had the exact same problem with live.com showing up a lot, but from almost the same IP address - always starting with 65.55.109 or 65.55.110.

    So I made a regular expression to keep it from loading the script on my site.

    The important condition is (asp.net c#):

    if (!Regex.IsMatch(Request.UserHostAddress, @"^65\.55\.(109|110)\.(\d{1,3})$"))

    // Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit.
    // http://bittert.net
    Posted 2 months ago #

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