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Old 02-11-2008, 12:06 PM
Jean-Luc Jean-Luc is offline
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Default Re: Pages viewed but no bandwidth used?

wige is referring to pages sending a 304 code when being visited by a browser that still have the page in local cache.

There can be another reason for what memaggiem sees in his stats. If a web robot sends a HEAD request, the server will only send the header back without content. An example of application is to check if a server is alife.

I guess that you are talking about AWStats statistics. When AWStats talks about "bandwidth", only the data bytes are counted. Packets that only contain a header count for zero data. This (slightly) underestimates the real bandwidth.

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