To clarify, you mean that you are not including those requests in our stats, but you are returning data to the requesters, yes? "Screening out" is ambiguous.
Also, global trend data on HEAD requests by redirect/originator domain would be very interesting to publish, and the resulting conversation would make bit.ly even more of a sector leader than it already is.
AndoverIT
· 7 months ago
Am having an issue between the Info stats and the Google Analytic stats.
One Click report showed 245 clicks for the month, whilst GA showed 120 visitors (not unique ones). Also, Direct traffic in GA was quite high although Twitter (where bit.ly is used) was very low.
The system is great and the live reporting excellent, but to be really useful we need to know how accurate it is, and GA is used as the baseline for this.
Hutch Carpenter
· 7 months ago
Hi Bit.ly guys -
I'm seeing really odd traffic stats for some bit.ly URLs. The click counts are way too high. Are there other things that would cause that beyond the HEAD requests? This issue is happening this week, well after the removal of HEAD requests.
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Also, global trend data on HEAD requests by redirect/originator domain would be very interesting to publish, and the resulting conversation would make bit.ly even more of a sector leader than it already is.
One Click report showed 245 clicks for the month, whilst GA showed 120 visitors (not unique ones). Also, Direct traffic in GA was quite high although Twitter (where bit.ly is used) was very low.
The system is great and the live reporting excellent, but to be really useful we need to know how accurate it is, and GA is used as the baseline for this.
I'm seeing really odd traffic stats for some bit.ly URLs. The click counts are way too high. Are there other things that would cause that beyond the HEAD requests? This issue is happening this week, well after the removal of HEAD requests.
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