Some time ago I added some stats for the voting on my photoblog and recently I have seen some strange behaviours, like popular images suddenly wasnt popular at all. So I started to dig a bit and soon found who was my most frequent voters…
the webcrawlers, I hade MSNbot, Googlebot, Yahoo Slurp etc voting a lot on my photos…. not really what I wanted. So after some hacking I updated the php script so now it doesnt record votes from bots, and if there is a bot I have missed it also saves the id/name of the browser being used to vote. So now the stats should be much more accurate though still I think I have quite a lot of bot visitors in the visitors count. Also added some code that will stop counting those as well, though havent had time to clear up the old stats.
