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Visitor from: Direct Link/Unknown | Some of them are crawlers

Stanislaw Czech, MCIL CL — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:26:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: Visitor from: Direct Link/Unknown
Poster: Stanislaw Czech, MCIL CL
Post title: Some of them are crawlers

Especially those with hundreds of previous visits, but I am sure that some of them are from within Proz.com, they are just not marked as such - for example I have several glossaries with over 2000 units altogether but I never had an entry marked glossary. So most likely some of these unknown entries come from glossaries.

I think that there is simply no tracking functions for some areas of Proz what results in this direct links.

Cheers
S

Visitor from: Direct Link/Unknown | Not always

Yasutomo Kanazawa — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:32:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: Visitor from: Direct Link/Unknown
Poster: Yasutomo Kanazawa
Post title: Not always

[quote]Patricia Rosas wrote:

[quote]Stanislaw Czech wrote:

About half of visits to my profile in the field: "from" are described as: Direct Link/Unknown. I am wondering what does it mean - there are not too many links to my profile on the Internet so I guess that most of this visits must originate at Proz.com, but than why are they not marked as for instance Forum, Kudoz, Glossary, etc...?

I suppose that I am not the only person in this situation - would it be possible to do something about this entries so that we could have more full information about the origin of visits?

Cheers
Stanislaw [/quote]

You're not alone. I seem to remember 2 other threads that discussed this (and many people began to notice the same situation for their own profiles). But if memory serves me (and maybe it doesn't!), these are web crawlers, which are indexing files for search engines. [/quote]

Some of them are crawlers, especially which makes hundreds of visits in total or 10 visits a day. But there are human beings who come from completely different or unknown links. Like Patricia pointed out, there has been a few forums about people getting worried about "unknown" visitors.

Visitor from: Direct Link/Unknown | crawlers?

Patricia Rosas — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:30:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: Visitor from: Direct Link/Unknown
Poster: Patricia Rosas
Post title: crawlers?

[quote]Stanislaw Czech wrote:

About half of visits to my profile in the field: "from" are described as: Direct Link/Unknown. I am wondering what does it mean - there are not too many links to my profile on the Internet so I guess that most of this visits must originate at Proz.com, but than why are they not marked as for instance Forum, Kudoz, Glossary, etc...?

I suppose that I am not the only person in this situation - would it be possible to do something about this entries so that we could have more full information about the origin of visits?

Cheers
Stanislaw [/quote]

You're not alone. I seem to remember 2 other threads that discussed this (and many people began to notice the same situation for their own profiles). But if memory serves me (and maybe it doesn't!), these are web crawlers, which are indexing files for search engines.

Visitor from: Direct Link/Unknown | Direct Link/Unknown

Claudio Porcellana (X) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:54:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: Visitor from: Direct Link/Unknown
Poster: Claudio Porcellana (X)
Post title: Direct Link/Unknown

I see a lot of them (a majority)
"anonymous browsing", I think
put this in google and see
;-D

Claudio

[Modificato alle 2009-06-22 23:56 GMT]

Visitor from: Direct Link/Unknown

Stanislaw Czech, MCIL CL — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:15:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: Visitor from: Direct Link/Unknown
Poster: Stanislaw Czech, MCIL CL

About half of visits to my profile in the field: "from" are described as: Direct Link/Unknown. I am wondering what does it mean - there are not too many links to my profile on the Internet so I guess that most of this visits must originate at Proz.com, but than why are they not marked as for instance Forum, Kudoz, Glossary, etc...?

I suppose that I am not the only person in this situation - would it be possible to do something about this entries so that we could have more full information about the origin of visits?

Cheers
Stanislaw