CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta property="og:image" content="https://images.boardhost.com/boardhostballoon.png" /> <title>Flag Counter Forum » Robots from Singapore</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style/Custom.css" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Message Board RSS" href="/rss/29383"> <script src="js/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script><script src="js/jquery-ui.min.js"></script><link rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" href="https://js.boardhost.com/jquery-impromptu.min.css"><script src="https://js.boardhost.com/jquery-impromptu.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/js/quicktags3.js?03312014"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).mousedown(function (e) { var container = new Array(); container.push($('#viewforumlinks'));container.push($('#viewforumlinksbottom')); var elements = document.getElementsByTagName("div"); for(i=0;i<elements.length;i++) { if (elements[i].id.substring(14,0)=="viewtopiclinks") { container.push($(elements[i])); } $.each(container, function(key, value) { if (!$(value).is(e.target) && $(value).has(e.target).length === 0) { if (!value == e.target.id) { $(value).css("display","none") }} }); } }); $(document).ready(function() { $("span.spoiler").hide();$('<a class="reveal" style="cursor:pointer;" title="Click to reveal!"><button>Spoiler »</button></a> ').insertBefore('.spoiler');$("a.reveal").click(function(){$(this).parents("p").children("a.reveal").hide();$(this).parents("p").children("span.spoiler").fadeIn(2500);});} );</script> <script type="text/javascript"> function movemenus() { $("#viewtopiclinks2").position({ my: "right top", at: "right+8 bottom+5", of: "#morelinkpos" }); } </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/js/lytebox.js"></script>  <link rel="stylesheet" href="/js/lytebox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> </head> <body class="nolinks" onload="movemenus()"><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Flag Counter 禄 Forum</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://s01.flagcounter.com/css/style_forum.css" type="text/css" media="all" /> </head> <body>  <div class="shell"> <a href="/"><img src="https://s01.flagcounter.com//images/holiday.png" class="holiday" style="display:none;"></a>  <div id="header">  <h1 id="logo"><a href="https://s01.flagcounter.com/">Flag Counter</a></h1>   <div class="navigation"> <ul> <li><a href="https://s01.flagcounter.com/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://s01.flagcounter.com//countries.html">Country List</a></li> <li><a href="https://s01.flagcounter.com//faq.html">FAQ</a></li> <li><a href="http://flagcounter.boardhost.com/">Forum</a></li> </ul> </div>  </div>  <div class="cl">聽</div>  <div id="content">  <div class="news">聽聽  <div class="post"> <font style="font: 20.1px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #266AA9;padding-left:22px;z-index:1000;">FLAG COUNTER FORUM</font> <div id="punwrap"> <div id="punviewtopic" class="pun"><header2><div id="brdheader" class="block"> <div class="box"> <div class="blank"> </div> <div id="brdmenu" class="inbox"> <ul> <li id="navindex"><a href="index.php">Index</a></li> <li id="navsearch"><a href="search.php">Search</a></li> <li id="navregister"><a href="https://flagcounter.boardhost.com/register.php">Register</a></li> <li id="navrules"><a href="misc.php?action=rules">Rules</a></li> <li id="navlogin"><a href="https://flagcounter.boardhost.com/login.php">Login</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="brdwelcome" class="inbox"> <p>You are not logged in. Would you like to <a href=https://flagcounter.boardhost.com/login.php>login</a> or <a href=https://flagcounter.boardhost.com/register.php>register</a>?</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="linkst"> <div class="inbox"> <h3 class="nolinks"><li><a href="index.php">Index</a></li><li> » <a href="viewforum.php?id=4">Help and Support Forum</a></li><li> » Robots from Singapore </li> </li></h3> <p class="pagelink" style="float:left;"><img src=https://cdn.boardhost.com/page_white_stack.png align=absbottom> <b>1</b> of 1</p> <p class="postlink conr">   </p> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div id="p398300" class="blockpost rowodd firstpost"> <h2> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="padding:0;margin:0;" id="messageoptions"><tr><td style="padding:0;margin:0;border-style:none;"> <a href="viewtopic.php?pid=398300#p398300" class="messageoptions">August 31, 2024 9:47 am</a> </td><td style="padding:0;margin:0;border-style:none;" align=right>  </td><td align=right style="padding:0;margin:0;border-style:none;width:1px;"><a href="viewtopic.php?pid=398300#p398300"><nobr>#1</nobr></a></td></tr></table></h2> <div class="box"> <div class="inbox"> <div class="postleft"> <dl class="nolinks"> <dd><strong><a href="profile.php?id=135162">michpom</a></strong></dd> <dd class="usertitle"><strong>Flag Newbie</strong> <p><img src="https://images.boardhost.com/icons/1/user_offline.png" align=absbottom style="margin-right:2px;">Offline</p> </dd> <dd class="postavatar"></dd> <dd>Registered: August 26, 2024</dd> <dd>Posts: 2</dd> </dl><br> </div> <div class="postright"> <h3>Robots from Singapore</h3> <div class="postmsg"> <p>Hello,<br /><br />I have a site dedicated to Bob Dylan where I have noted during the 6 last months a huge amount (100s daily...) of visits from Singapore that soon became the 2nd country sending visits to the site.<br />As I do not think there are in Singapore so many聽 Dylan fans suddenly interested by my site, I聽 suppose they are just robots.<br />These 'visits' concentrate on some days, or weeks, and then cease.<br /><br />But what is very strange to me is that Google Analytics DOES NOT SEE these visitors from Singapore!<br />This country just does not appear in Analytics results... (see the iages)<br /><br />鈥婽his is not really a problem, but could somebody please give me an explanation?<br /><br />Thank you,<br /><br />Michel<br /><br /><img src="https://www.bobdylan-comewritersandcritics.com/largeimages/analytics.jpg" style="max-width:100%;"><img src="https://www.bobdylan-comewritersandcritics.com/largeimages/flag-counter.jpg" style="max-width:100%;"></p> <p class="postedit"><em>Last edited by michpom (August 31, 2024 9:48 am)</em></p> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> <div class="postfootleft"></div> <div class="postfootright"><div> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="p398302" class="blockpost roweven"> <h2> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="padding:0;margin:0;" id="messageoptions"><tr><td style="padding:0;margin:0;border-style:none;"> <a href="viewtopic.php?pid=398302#p398302" class="messageoptions">August 31, 2024 1:33 pm</a> </td><td style="padding:0;margin:0;border-style:none;" align=right>  </td><td align=right style="padding:0;margin:0;border-style:none;width:1px;"><a href="viewtopic.php?pid=398302#p398302"><nobr>#2</nobr></a></td></tr></table></h2> <div class="box"> <div class="inbox"> <div class="postleft"> <dl class="nolinks"> <dd><strong><a href="profile.php?id=36673">holland25</a></strong></dd> <dd class="usertitle"><strong>Flag Master</strong> <p><img src="https://images.boardhost.com/icons/1/user_offline.png" align=absbottom style="margin-right:2px;">Offline</p> </dd> <dd class="postavatar"><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/27/fa/HCugxTXw_o.png" alt="" style="max-width:128px;max-height:128px;"/></dd> <dd>From: Trnava, Slovakia</dd> <dd>Registered: September 20, 2010</dd> <dd>Posts: 3,686</dd> </dl><br> </div> <div class="postright"> <h3> Re: Robots from Singapore</h3> <div class="postmsg"> <p>Yeah, there's a very good chance GA has them filtered out. They're Bytespider crawlers designed to "borrow" images from sites for their AI bullshit. The worst thing is they can't be blocked</p> </div> <div class="postsignature"><hr /><span class="nolinks"><a href="https://s05.flagcounter.com/more/MECnk/" style="overflow:hidden;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-line-clamp:1;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;">https://s05.flagcounter.com/more/MECnk/</a><br /><br />251/251 countries and 3,860/3,860 flags collected.</span></div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> <div class="postfootleft"></div> <div class="postfootright"><div> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="p398303" class="blockpost rowodd"> <h2> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="padding:0;margin:0;" id="messageoptions"><tr><td style="padding:0;margin:0;border-style:none;"> <a href="viewtopic.php?pid=398303#p398303" class="messageoptions">August 31, 2024 1:47 pm</a> </td><td style="padding:0;margin:0;border-style:none;" align=right>  </td><td align=right style="padding:0;margin:0;border-style:none;width:1px;"><a href="viewtopic.php?pid=398303#p398303"><nobr>#3</nobr></a></td></tr></table></h2> <div class="box"> <div class="inbox"> <div class="postleft"> <dl class="nolinks"> <dd><strong><a href="profile.php?id=135162">michpom</a></strong></dd> <dd class="usertitle"><strong>Flag Newbie</strong> <p><img src="https://images.boardhost.com/icons/1/user_offline.png" align=absbottom style="margin-right:2px;">Offline</p> </dd> <dd class="postavatar"></dd> <dd>Registered: August 26, 2024</dd> <dd>Posts: 2</dd> </dl><br> </div> <div class="postright"> <h3> Re: Robots from Singapore</h3> <div class="postmsg"> <p>I have blocked Singapore on the .htaccess file ...<br />Do not know if it will really block them ...</p> <p class="postedit"><em>Last edited by michpom (August 31, 2024 1:48 pm)</em></p> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> <div class="postfootleft"><ul style="padding-top:10px;"> <strong>•</strong><img src=https://cdn.boardhost.com/invisible.gif width=2><strong>Thread Starter</strong></ul></div> <div class="postfootright"><div> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="p398304" class="blockpost roweven"> <h2> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="padding:0;margin:0;" id="messageoptions"><tr><td style="padding:0;margin:0;border-style:none;"> <a href="viewtopic.php?pid=398304#p398304" class="messageoptions">August 31, 2024 1:49 pm</a> </td><td style="padding:0;margin:0;border-style:none;" align=right>  </td><td align=right style="padding:0;margin:0;border-style:none;width:1px;"><a href="viewtopic.php?pid=398304#p398304"><nobr>#4</nobr></a></td></tr></table></h2> <div class="box"> <div class="inbox"> <div class="postleft"> <dl class="nolinks"> <dd><strong><a href="profile.php?id=36673">holland25</a></strong></dd> <dd class="usertitle"><strong>Flag Master</strong> <p><img src="https://images.boardhost.com/icons/1/user_offline.png" align=absbottom style="margin-right:2px;">Offline</p> </dd> <dd class="postavatar"><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/27/fa/HCugxTXw_o.png" alt="" style="max-width:128px;max-height:128px;"/></dd> <dd>From: Trnava, Slovakia</dd> <dd>Registered: September 20, 2010</dd> <dd>Posts: 3,686</dd> </dl><br> </div> <div class="postright"> <h3> Re: Robots from Singapore</h3> <div class="postmsg"> <p>It may or may not. They can also be allocated to 10 different countries in 10 different databases</p> </div> <div class="postsignature"><hr /><span class="nolinks"><a href="https://s05.flagcounter.com/more/MECnk/" style="overflow:hidden;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-line-clamp:1;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;">https://s05.flagcounter.com/more/MECnk/</a><br /><br />251/251 countries and 3,860/3,860 flags collected.</span></div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> <div class="postfootleft"></div> <div class="postfootright"><div> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="p398324" class="blockpost rowodd"> <h2> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="padding:0;margin:0;" id="messageoptions"><tr><td style="padding:0;margin:0;border-style:none;"> <a href="viewtopic.php?pid=398324#p398324" class="messageoptions">September 1, 2024 10:31 pm</a> </td><td style="padding:0;margin:0;border-style:none;" align=right>  </td><td align=right style="padding:0;margin:0;border-style:none;width:1px;"><a href="viewtopic.php?pid=398324#p398324"><nobr>#5</nobr></a></td></tr></table></h2> <div class="box"> <div class="inbox"> <div class="postleft"> <dl class="nolinks"> <dd><strong><a href="profile.php?id=135058">Fernanjot</a></strong></dd> <dd class="usertitle"><strong>Flag Newbie</strong> <p><img src="https://images.boardhost.com/icons/1/user_offline.png" align=absbottom style="margin-right:2px;">Offline</p> </dd> <dd class="postavatar"></dd> <dd>From: Portugal</dd> <dd>Registered: July 13, 2024</dd> <dd>Posts: 3</dd> </dl><br> </div> <div class="postright"> <h3> Re: Robots from Singapore</h3> <div class="postmsg"> <blockquote><div class="incqbox"><h4><img src=/images/quote.png align=top style="padding-top:2px;padding-right:1px;">michpom wrote:</h4><p>I have blocked Singapore on the .htaccess file ...<br />Do not know if it will really block them ...</p></div></blockquote><p>Forget it.聽 I tried too without success.<br /><br /><a href="https://flagcounter.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=29328" style="overflow:hidden;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-line-clamp:1;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;">https://flagcounter.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=29328</a><br />聽</p> <p class="postedit"><em>Last edited by Fernanjot (September 1, 2024 10:32 pm)</em></p> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> <div class="postfootleft"></div> <div class="postfootright"><div> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="postlinksb"> <div class="inbox"> <p class="postlink conr"> </p> <p class="pagelink" style="float:left;"><img src=https://cdn.boardhost.com/page_white_stack.png align=absbottom> <b>1</b> of 1</p> <div class="clearer"></div> <h3 class="nolinks" style=""><li><a href="index.php">Index</a></li><li> » <a href="viewforum.php?id=4">Help and Support Forum</a></li><li> »  Robots from Singapore </li> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div id="brdfooter" class="block"> <h2><span>Board footera</span></h2> <div class="box"> <div class="inbox"> <div class="conl"> <form id="qjump" method="get" action="viewforum.php"> <div><label>Jump to: <select name="id" onchange="window.location=('viewforum.php?id='+this.options[this.selectedIndex].value)"> <optgroup label="Flag Counter Service"> <option value="4" selected="selected">Help and Support Forum</option> <option value="45">Flag Counter Pro</option> <option value="7">Suggestions and Feedback</option> </optgroup> <optgroup label="Flag Discussion"> <option value="8">Flags, Flags, Flags</option> <option value="17">Request Flags</option> <option value="18">Flag Offers</option> </optgroup> </select> </label></div> </form> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> </div><footer2> </div> </div> </div>  <div class="cl">聽</div> <h1 id="logo2"><a href="/">Flag Counter</a></h1> <div class="cl">聽</div> </div>  </div>  </div>   <div id="footer"> <div class="shell"> <div class="cl">聽</div> <p class="left"><a href="https://s01.flagcounter.com///contact.html">Contact</a> | <a href="https://s01.flagcounter.com///terms.html">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://s01.flagcounter.com//privacy.html">Privacy Policy</a> | 漏 <a href=https://boardhost.com>Boardhost.com, Inc.</a> </p> <p class="right"> <font color=#ffffff>This product includes GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from <a href=\"https://www.maxmind.com\"><font color=#ffffff><u>https://www.maxmind.com/</u></font></a>.</font> </p> <div class="cl">聽</div> </div> </div>  </body> </html><slidebar><script src="js/slidebars.min.js"></script><script> (function($) { $(document).ready(function() { $.slidebars(); }); }) (jQuery);</script></body> </html>