• panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
    54·
    3 days ago

    If they’re basing this off browser user agents like a third of my traffic at least is random Chinese ips and requests with Chinese language in the headers.

    All of them would be flagged as unknown by the major user agent parsing libraries.

    None of the sure I work with have any Chinese content or content remotely useful for Chinese people, so it’s scrapers.

    • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
      37·
      3 days ago

      From the FAQ:

      Statcounter is a web analytics service. Our tracking code is installed on more than 1.5 million sites globally. These sites cover various activities and geographic locations. Every month, we record billions of page views to these sites. For each page view, we analyse the browser/operating system/screen resolution used and we establish if the page view is from a mobile device.

      So yeah, they’re basing of browser user agents.