I have changed my mind about what I said the other day regarding Mr. Star and his cronies definitely getting the information about me running Windows XP with a screen resolution of 1024×768 from the computer forum.
I suddenly remembered that when this all started back in August or September, I did not have Statcounter on here, only Sitemeter – and I think that my Sitemeter logs had previously been available to the public. I cannot remember exactly when I changed it to private, but it is possible that Mr. Star got my computer details from there and not from the computer forum. Although there is, of course, still a possible link to the computer forum in the posts that they were most keen on clicking on…. but that could just have been that somebody else wanted to make it appear as though they were from the forum, although the incredible reaction to my post on the 23rd October does seem to be an over-the-top way of making me think that!
One thing I do know for certain is that one of Mr. Star’s editing gang visited my blog on the 26th August, before Statcounter was installed. This visitor’s I.S.P was Uk2 and their I.P. number was 109.123.123.162.
Today though, my attention has again been turned towards my anti-reiki WordPress blog. I mentioned this before, just after the recent bad stuff happened, because I was kinda worried that somebody might be some wishing harm on us. I know that sounds a bit far-fetched though!!!!
Forgetting that, my attention today has been focused on the Statcounter logs for this WordPress blog. This has been a real puzzle to me ever since I first installed Stacounter, after my problems here on H.I.T.S. had started. I have quite a lot of traffic on there, which is pretty surprising in itself as there is not much going on there. There are a few regular visitors there, which is strange as it mainly includes links to other informative websites. The really surprising thing though is the fact that virtually none of the visitors show a referring link such as Google…. they all just show ‘no referring link’ – and if I click on the in-depth reports, they all show that java has been disabled on the visitor’s computer. Only very occasionally do I get a ‘normal’ visitor with ‘normal’ details!
Going back to what I said in a previous post, Statcounter collects the data it needs from a java code which has to be installed on the webpage. So, how is it that all these visitors have java disabled and yet their I.P. numbers still show on Statcounter? I personally have no idea whatsoever!
My attention today has been focused on one particular visitor to the WordPress blog. He is shown as being from the U.K. and his I.S.P. is shown as being a U.K. company called TalkTalk. He is using Internet Explorer 8 and running Windows XP. His screen resolution is not shown because, like the other visitors to the blog, he has java disabled.
The really interesting thing about this visitor though is what shows up on the line which gives details of the webpage visited. With ‘normal’ visors, this shows the address of the blog, followed by detail of any specific page when one has been clicked on. With the visitors who have disabled java though, all that shows is ‘unknown’….. except for this particular visitor. He has visited 5 times since the 21st March and each time the site/page visited shows as http://c.statcounter.com/10099557/0/d052489f/1/
If you click on the link, it does not lead anywhere….. although it attempts to connect to a picture (or gif). I think I previously had the Statcounter logs available to the public in error, but this has not been the case for some time. The stats are currently private and there is no icon or any other indication that the page is being monitored by Statcounter. So, what is this visitor up to?
One again, mega interesting stuff…….
UPDATE (Sept 2015): I subsequently learned you cannot get full Statcounter details with WordPress: it always says ‘javascript disabled’ and does not show the visitor’s screen resolution. Details of the referring and exit links and the web pages visited are also not shown.
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