Loopback?

[wil3]

someone was good enough to help, with my one question..thought i would press my luck...

Stacounter measured a visitor...who had approx 1 hour on the site....

they linked in using a search engine, provided link....

the thing is....the ISP is Loopback and the IP address is my own local host Loopback adapter....

y in the hell would they be on my site for one hour????

thx for any help...

[wil3]

well it happened again.....

this time the local host was on site for 1 1/2 hrs.....

if a staff member see's this post..plz fill me in ????

[webado]

http://forum.statcounter.com/vb/sear...searchid=43026

Visit length is irrelevant. It's difference in time stamp between first entry and last entry.

[wil3]

and btw, thx for the reply....my interest was the fact, that it was the local host and the loopback adapter IP number...that my firewall lists for local host....that was who was on my site for over and hour.....does not that seem unusual...

[webado]

Nobody is on a site for any length of time. All you have is people loading a page at one moment, and another and another, at different intervals over the span of that length of time.

[wil3]

thx....i will just add this to the list of things i do not understand..and i assure u...it is a long list....

y my local host IP...would be loading my website page....i just can't say...it has only happened 2 times..thx again...

it's cool.....

[webado]

OK, Statcounter tries to "break" through proxies by going one step behind in order to get the "real" IP address of the visitor, not the proxy diguised one. This works most of the time for some anonymizer proxies, that are only once removed from the user.

Some firewalls/proxies (often institutional ones) however seem to be set up differently and going one step behind their external IP, one simply ends up with the internal IP address of a PC on a lan.

All internal Ip addresses are in certain ranges of numbers, so it need not even be your own internal IP address which is shown, but anybody else's who was visting your site through such a gateway.

I understand it's on Statcounter's to-do list to recognize when that has happened and not use the internal ip address, and thus report the original one. I guess it's gotten buried by more pressing needs.

[wil3]

thx.....now u made my head explode with too much info...j/k thx..

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...r/8a03eeba.jpg

lol.....