Hit Counter & Robots

[rehopper]

Can the hit counter be altered to omit hits by robots?

Several hundred robot hits are experienced occasionally and are very disappointing!

I find nothing in the ZC Manual or our forum.

[Ajeh]

Zen Cart v1.3.9 does not count spiders in the counts any longer ...

[rehopper]

Ajeh,
My admin page right now=01/17/2011 1268 - 1331

On StatCounter.com = Nice and Easy Direct 48

I'm in v139h, the counter.php file is the current one from the139h package. Any suggestions wher I should look to correct?

[Ajeh]

Check that your file:
/includes/application_top.php

is current and up to date:

if ($spider_flag == false) {
// counter and counter history
  require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'counter.php');
}

Check that your file:
/includes/spiders.txt

is current and up to date ...

[rehopper]

My application_top.php appears to be OK but the spider.txt didn't include 2 bots crawling my site right now; googlebot and crawl.yahoo.
I added them but wonder how many more exist that I won't "catch in the act".
Is there an updated listing available to utilize?

[Ajeh]

Not sure how you lost those, but the file:
/includes/spiders.txt

that comes with v1.3.9h should be labeled at the top as:
$Id: spiders.txt 16983 2010-07-25 17:40:59Z drbyte $

[hellojohnatan]

Check that your file:
/includes/application_top.php

is current and up to date:

if ($spider_flag == false) {
// counter and counter history
  require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'counter.php');
}

Check that your file:
/includes/spiders.txt

is current and up to date ...

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