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Visitor map

by Volker Weber

Stefan has developed a new service that lets you view the last n visitors to vowe.net. I am currently setting n=250, since it seems to set a good balance between performance and number of data points. This is a live service. No caching. Just the bare metal. ;-)

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wie auch immer das Ding weiß wo ich wohne. Kann mich jemand aufklären wie man aus 85.178.104.155 meine Koordinaten rausbekommt?

Danke

samuel adam, 2005-08-23 19:02

Wow. Saucool.

Joerg Richter, 2005-08-23 19:06

Samuel, klickst Du auf Stefan und liest dort die Kommentare.

Volker Weber, 2005-08-23 19:18

Very cool indeed. Has this been custom made for you, or is it going to be available in a form that can be used by many people?

Jeroen Sangers, 2005-08-23 19:31

Seems to be struggling with me though, no dot to be seen anywhere near Swindon. But then hostip.info says they can't resolve my IP.

Armin Grewe, 2005-08-23 19:32

It has been designed to work with more than one site. vowe.net is only the second. But I cannot comment on Stefan's plan to make it available elsewhere. Try gvisit.com to see your last 20 visitors. Or pay them to show you 50.

Volker Weber, 2005-08-23 19:59

this looks cool, thanks for the info

Simon Barratt, 2005-08-24 02:31

Very very cool - instead of looking at the numbers, you get the pretty picture !

Hopefully it will be released for usage by other people ? Me want !

Does it drop all the bots that come visit the sites (msn bot, yahoo search bot, google bot, jp bot) ? I don't think they should really count as a person...

Alex Boschmans, 2005-08-24 09:31

Alex: No, it won't drop the bots. The reason is that it was designed with speed in mind. Once I start messing with evaluation of the Client ID and other stuff, it will get get bloated and I don't like that. I do agree that "visitor map" may be a misleading name for it actually is a "hit map". Having said that I have to admit that I actually like to be able to detect an increased activity from unusual places. As for the "usage by other people": why don't you just ask the author? Makes me wonder, though, what you need it for. The site linked with your name doesn't seem to be connected.

Stefan Rubner, 2005-08-24 11:05

Bot don't execute Javascript. So, you are not recording them.

Volker Weber, 2005-08-24 11:27

It's not a matter of executing it. The question is whether a bot will follow the link and try to open the file. As you can see it's not a JavaScript at all but a PHP script instead. The advantage of calling it via a forged Javascript statement is that the browser won't expect to get back an image as is the case with forged IMG tags.

Stefan Rubner, 2005-08-24 14:58

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