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Googlebot accounts for one fourth of my page hits!
I just had a look at the browser stats for the visits to my site. The results are strange. Googlebot seems to be taking up a huge share of the traffic. I think I have read an explanation somewhere, maybe it was on Tim Bray’s site. Nevertheless, these numbers are scary:
| Browser | count | percentage |
|---|---|---|
| MSIE | 7890 | 34.8 |
| Googlebot | 5631 | 24.8 |
| Firefox | 1956 | 8.6 |
| undisclosed | 1125 | 5.0 |
| Yahoo | 994 | 4.4 |
| Bloglines | 929 | 4.1 |
| msn | 860 | 3.8 |
| Mozilla | 758 | 3.3 |
| Konqueror | 409 | 1.8 |
| 353 | 1.6 | |
| Safari | 263 | 1.2 |
(The second Google is not Googlebot. The stats are for 24 hours. They exclude some parts of my web site.)
It seems that a large fraction of the visits to my sites are from search engines. What does this says about the current state of the web?