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Bug 46275 - Microsoft spider hits skew browser stats
Microsoft spider hits skew browser stats
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: Analytics
Classification: Unclassified
Wikistats (Other open bugs)
unspecified
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: Unprioritized normal
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2013-03-18 13:15 UTC by Erik Zachte
Modified: 2013-04-11 13:40 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Erik Zachte 2013-03-18 13:15:31 UTC 
reported via mail: 

18/7/2011 
Dear Mr. Zachte,

I think Microsoft and their browsers may be over represented in your statistics as Microsoft runs 'spiders' that identify themselves as whatever operating system and browser Microsoft is promoting.  I see it on my server logs and you will probably see it on yours.  Besides the unnatural browsing pattern they originate from Microsoft owned/controlled IP addresses making them quite identifiable.

Regards,

Richard A. Marschall, Ph.D.
Director, Engineering
Marschall Acoustics Instruments P/L

ram@hydrophones.com
Comment 2 Diederik van Liere 2013-03-26 19:08:01 UTC 
Dear Richard,

Could you please provide us with the ip-ranges that the Microsoft bots use?

Best,
Diederik
Comment 3 Andre Klapper 2013-03-27 09:36:36 UTC 
Richard is not CCed on this report, so an email would have to be sent.
Comment 4 Diederik van Liere 2013-04-11 13:38:13 UTC 
Closing this ticket as I have not been able to contact the original bug reporter, I did email him personally.
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