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Testing with curl tests the wrong thing
A counter request that arrives without a browser identity writes into two of the twelve places a counted visit normally touches. It answers 200. It returns a valid counter image. Nothing…
One crawler made most of our bot traffic
Counters here keep robots in a column of their own. They are recorded, but they do not move the number on your badge unless you switch them on. That separation makes it easy to ask a…
Your counter has been counting robots
Your counter has been counting robots. So has everybody's. Until this month nobody here could tell you how many, because nothing was measuring it — and a crawler that requests a counter…