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daniel-levin
on March 12, 2013
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Results of the 2013 /r/Linux Distro Survey
Do Linux based spiders and crawlers count? If so, has that skewed the results in a meaningful way?
pyvek
on March 12, 2013
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Unless the web crawlers are intentionally spoofing their user agent to identify as browsers, I don't think that they are counted.
padraigm
on March 12, 2013
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Whether they count or not, I would expect to see "regular" users to be orders of magnitude more common than web crawlers.
Flimm
on March 12, 2013
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But web crawlers generate orders of magnitude more traffic than regular users.
dredmorbius
on March 12, 2013
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True, but if you're tracking users, you'll normalize for that (tracking cookies, bot exclusion, IP, etc.). It's somewhat nontrivial, but most web analytics packages will give you a decent first cut.
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