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Most web servers routinely maintain access logs with a portion of this information, which can be used to get an overall picture of what pages are popular, what other sites link to this one, and what web browsers people are using. </p><p>These logs are used to produce the <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Statistics">site statistics pages</a>; the raw log data is not made public, and is normally discarded after about two weeks. </p><p>Here's a sample from Wikipedia--which uses the same logging system as Ballotpedia--of a log for one such page view: </p> <pre>64.164.82.142 - - [21/Oct/2003:02:03:19 +0000] "GET /wiki/draft_privacy_policy HTTP/1.1" 200 18084 "<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external free" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_projects:Village_pump">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_projects:Village_pump</a>" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/85.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85.5" </pre> <p>Log data may be examined by developers in the course of solving technical problems and in tracking down badly-behaved web spiders that overwhelm the site. 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