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6th August 2004, 04:59 PM
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DistroWatch.com and their Page Hit Ranking
looking at their page I find that nice ranking of the distros their visitors use..
I'm wondering, where they get this info from?
looking at $env(HTTP_USER_AGENT) my browser sends to my webserver, I only receive
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040706 Moonpony/0.9.1 (Firefox/0.9.1 polymorph)
so how do they do it? is there another var I'm not aware of, or do their visitors need to change their identification strings to display their distribution?
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6th August 2004, 08:37 PM
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they count by how many people click on the Fedora link instead of reading host type
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7th August 2004, 02:51 PM
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do you know that, or is it a guess? cause it seems very unlikely to me..
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7th August 2004, 06:06 PM
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i know that, i used to mirror for them on osforge, also linuxcult, i asked him about page ranking, they count by unique click divided by days it's been there, which give average daily clicks
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7th August 2004, 09:42 PM
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dooh!
I just realized, I misinterpreted that 'page hit ranking'... I thought they'd count how many visitors use a certain distro..
sorry for the stupid question 
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7th August 2004, 10:09 PM
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they count by hits....
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8th August 2004, 04:02 AM
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Currently Fedora is #2! 
I've heard they refer many people here, to fedoraforum.org.
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8th August 2004, 06:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Jman
Currently Fedora is #2!
I've heard they refer many people here, to fedoraforum.org. |
and getting more popular....just look at our forum activity 
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9th August 2004, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Jman
Currently Fedora is #2!
I've heard they refer many people here, to fedoraforum.org. |
Indeed they do. I believe that at one point or another they were the #1 referrer. FedoraNEWS was #3 and Google #2.
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8th August 2004, 06:10 AM
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By the way, it is possible to extract host information from an HTTP request - if it's not disabled. Some browsers (*cough*IE*cough*) don't, or at least didn't, allow you to disable this particular header.
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8th August 2004, 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by crackers
By the way, it is possible to extract host information from an HTTP request - if it's not disabled. Some browsers (*cough*IE*cough*) don't, or at least didn't, allow you to disable this particular header.
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but that info would be listed in HTTP_USER_AGENT, right?
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I think it's a separate request parameter, but as I said, I don't exactly remember.
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