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Just wondering...

Hermy · 2008-06-21 23:55:21

According to the Top Statistics this thread is currently the most viewed with over one and a half million hits. The same thread had more than fourteen and a half million hits on Saturday evening. Just wondering what has caused these rather spurious looking stats.

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22-06-2008 12:55am

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Hermy

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According to the Top Statistics this thread is currently the most viewed with over one and a half million hits. The same thread had more than fourteen and a half million hits on Saturday evening.
Just wondering what has caused these rather spurious looking stats.

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#2 22-06-2008 12:58am
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probably google hits?
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#3 22-06-2008 12:58am
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That must be a mistake like the girl with the huge postcount.

/searches for Eircom cd

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#4 22-06-2008 1:01am
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Someone with a broken f5 key.

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#5 22-06-2008 1:05am
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Sherifu wrote: »

That must be a mistake like the girl with the huge postcount.

/searches for Eircom cd

That was Shadiegirl. I spotted her crazy stats also.
Does this entitle me to free stuff?:pac:

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#6 22-06-2008 1:07am
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Hermy wrote: »

That was Shadiegirl. I spotted her crazy stats also.
Does this entitle me to free stuff?:pac:

Sure.

/hands over Eircom Phonebook cd

Congratulations.

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#7 22-06-2008 1:08am
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Jesus that's a lot of hits.

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#8 22-06-2008 1:16am
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Sherifu wrote: »

Sure.

/hands over Eircom Phonebook cd

Congratulations.

I've never heard of them.
Are they a new band?

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#9 22-06-2008 1:49am
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Hermy wrote: »

I've never heard of them.
Are they a new band?

Probably some emo band?

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#10 22-06-2008 3:06am
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This is what happens when you hire hitmen....

Rb wrote: »

Jesus that's a lot of hits.

...or maybe Jesus was checking it up?

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#11 22-06-2008 3:08am
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Another contributing factor

Result No. 8 of google when you search for 'eircom phonebook', and an eye catching title.

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#12 22-06-2008 3:14am
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nevf wrote: »

Another contributing factor

Result No. 8 of google when you search for 'eircom phonebook', and an eye catching title.

No 1 if you google eircom phonebook cd.

http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=eircom+phonebook+cd&btnG=Search&meta=

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#13 22-06-2008 4:03am
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AlmightyCushion wrote: »

No 1 if you google eircom phonebook cd.

http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=eircom+phonebook+cd&btnG=Search&meta=

Even at that, I wouldn't imagine Google to bring in 1.5 nillion hits... a third of irelands population.

Perhaps Awstats may fill us in?

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#14 22-06-2008 12:53pm
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AVG link scanner maybe?

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#15 22-06-2008 1:32pm
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Doesn't explain why it had 14.5 million hits on Saturday afternoon though?

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#16 22-06-2008 1:36pm
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Hermy wrote: »

Doesn't explain why it had 14.5 million hits on Saturday afternoon though?

Is there a hotly anticipated version of the phonebook coming out that I have missed in my time living in caves? PhoneBook 3.0?

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#17 22-06-2008 11:39pm
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I know from a reliable source (The conspiracy theory forum) that the EU plans to have each member citizen phone an Irish household. Make the final connection for yourselves.

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#18 23-06-2008 12:43am
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AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Someone with a broken f5 key.

everyone comes here when the datastore errors are a poppin. refresh rates shoot through the roof.

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#19 23-06-2008 5:15pm
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Checked out the logs, nothing really odd showed up, could be random. Reset to 1000. If it climbs again at an unusual rate, I'll look into it some more.

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#20 27-06-2008 12:08am
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I feel better now.

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#21 05-07-2008 5:32pm
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Today it has 845345 hits.

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#22 05-07-2008 6:29pm
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That really IS weird... could someone be trying to DDOS us? (its hard to tell with our bandwidth capacity ).

DeV.

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#23 05-07-2008 6:50pm
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No ideas meself but I just thought I'd flag it on the off chance it's malicious.

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#24 05-07-2008 7:30pm
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another hamster revolt?

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#25 06-07-2008 9:28am
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leninbenjamin wrote: »

another hamster revolt?

DUDE, you have NO idea.

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#26 07-07-2008 8:55am
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Wow nearly 800k of hits in 14 days. That's 57,142 hits a day.

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#27 07-07-2008 2:22pm
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All you need is 1-2 people with OCD and you can easily get 50k+ hits per day.

I have also seen a bug in another vBulletin forum where the Internet Explorer browser keeps opening the same tab over and over again in an infinite loop. A newbie user perhaps?

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