Repeat visitors

[Tim Jury]

We advertise our site on google adwords and occasionally on Overture. I suspect from time to time a competitor is purposely milking our marketing budget with fraudulent clicks. Is there any way of identifying if the same IP address is continually accessing the site, or if not, would it possible to have such a feature?

Many thanks

Absolutely!

Increase the log quota - get all your visitors recorded.

The data you are able to get from that is incredible. I know that StatCounter has been the deciding factor in high court cases (although I can't give any more information than that).

See exactly where in the world you are getting a lot of clicks from a certain visitors. Drill down through the came from results for a particular referring URL from overture.

There is nothing better than StatCounter for doing this.

[Tim Jury]

Thanks for this, but just some clarification needed.

We only advertise in the UK, so 97% of the country info shows the Union Jack.

There are a large number of google entries in the came from results: are you saying that we need to drill down into each one to look for a repeat ISP address?

Thanks again.

[Tim Jury]

Sorry but don't think a reply was ever posted to my follow up question. Wait to hear.

many thanks

Tim

if you drill down based on no data it will group all your IPs together for you right now.

But we are also redesigning the visitor stats at the moment so it should be immediately clearer from the new look when we are done as well.

[J_V_Enterprises]

Hi, I started using StatCounter a couple of months ago on a recommendation from another StatCounter user. I would love it if there were some way that I could receive a notification (email maybe) when a certain IP address or host is logged. I have an individual that is harrasing my online business and would love to know when they hit one of the counters so I can be ready to undo any nasty comments that they leave.

Thanks,

Jason

[thiskid]

I would love it if there were some way that I could receive a notification (email maybe) when a certain IP address or host is logged.

StatCounter doesn't offer this, but PHP does!

Here's what I have set up, and it works fine on my site:

First, on the main page (or whichever page you want watched), insert this code to run the script only for that specific IP address.

if( $ip == "555.55.555.55" ) {
include( 'http://www.mydomain.com/email_alert.php' );
}


Now create the file "email_alert.php" and edit to your specifications.


<?php
// Sends an email to a defined address
// There is no user input, this is automatic.
// by thiskid.com

// where to send the email
$myemail = "me@mydomain";

// time it occurred
$today = date("l, F j, Y, g:i a") ;

// email subject
$subject = "jerkface just visited your site!" ;

// email body
$message = "jerkface visited your site $today [EST] \n
";

// email from address
$from = "From: $myemail\r\n";

// sends the email
// mail() command must be on server
mail($myemail, $subject, $message, $from);
?>


I know that there are other ways to send mail with PHP (other commands like "sendmail"), but this approach was simple and easy, and it works for me.
Let me know how it goes!

[J_V_Enterprises]

Thanks thiskid, I am in the process of adding PHP to my toolkit, so this will come in handy down the road. For the time being, the site that I am using StatCounter on does not offer me this capability, so I was wondering if iOffer could implement a solution on their end.

Jason