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Re: Talking HEADs

Hutch Carpenter — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:29:50 -0000

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.

There's a discussion about this on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/bhc3/...

Re: Talking HEADs

AndoverIT — Sun, 03 May 2009 10:06:01 -0000

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.

Re: Talking HEADs

rafer — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:24:02 -0000

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.