Stats Module Problem

kaain · New Member Joined: Oct 22, 2006 Posts: 23

My stats module isn't reporting the correct amount of hits per person.

Just refreshing the page gives me from 5331 to 5349. This is from a site that usually gets between 300 - 800 hits per day.

...any help on fixing this much appreciated.

jakec · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 5:44 am

Are you talking about the standard Stats module/block?

I seem to recall this being discussed before in the forums, a search may reveal the answer.

kaain · New Member Joined: Oct 22, 2006 Posts: 23

Yeah its the standard one, I tried tried searching but will try again.

kaain · New Member Joined: Oct 22, 2006 Posts: 23

Nope can't seem to find anything related to my problem. :-/

jakec · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 1:22 pm

Hmm I can't find the discussion I was thinking off either. Confused

jakec · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 1:23 pm

What theme are you using?

kaain · New Member Joined: Oct 22, 2006 Posts: 23

She theme by Effectica, I can't imagine that having anything to do with it though, I have always used it.

jakec · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 2:38 pm

Has the stats module ever worked? I'm just wondering if something in the theme, or a module is calling the counter code more than once.

Any new modules recently?

kaain · New Member Joined: Oct 22, 2006 Posts: 23

Yeah its always worked, seems to be random numbers, its just clicked past 12 midnight and with one refresh of the browser I have 1,688 hits !

jakec · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 2:26 am

and you haven't added anything, or the server hasn't changed?

Can you provide us with a link so we can have a look ourselves?

kaain · New Member Joined: Oct 22, 2006 Posts: 23

Not changed a thing. Link sent.

jakec · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 5:44 am

Is you stats module accessible to visitors?

The visits in the User Info block appears to be incrementing correctly.

kaain · New Member Joined: Oct 22, 2006 Posts: 23

Hmm strange. It was accessible, but i disabled it after noticing the dodgy stats, do you need access to it?

Weird i still have the problem here, I just refershed and it added another 10, do you think it has something to do with admin status?

jakec · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:42 am

If you log out of admin and as a user does it still happen?

Have you tried with a different browser?

kaain · New Member Joined: Oct 22, 2006 Posts: 23

Logged out, now using IE7, just refreshed and its added 9 hits

jakec · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 8:18 am

Ah yes I am seeing that also now.

I am running out of ideas now. If you haven't changed anything at all then it shouldn't just start happening. Confused

jestrella · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 9:20 am

kaain, you may realize that there could be more people at the same time visiting your site, thus increasing the amount of impressions everytime you refresh but if you were the only one on the site then after refreshing the amount of impresions would be increasing one by one.

jakec · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 5:01 am

I had thought the same thing, but User Info box was telling me there was only 3 visitors on the site at the time and it incremented by more than three times that. I really have run out of ideas now. Sad

Hmm, I've just looked now and it is incrementing in 1's and I am the only one on the site, according to the user info block. So perhaps it is working OK. Confused

kaain · New Member Joined: Oct 22, 2006 Posts: 23

It's not but thanks for the help anyway.

jakec · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 7:42 am

I've just checked again now and it is incrementing correctly. If there is a problem it is intermittent.

kaain · New Member Joined: Oct 22, 2006 Posts: 23

I'll just have to ignore it. Rolling Eyes

jestrella · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:41 am

spambots????

jakec · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:44 am

Spambots would still show up as users on the site though, or even search engine bots.