Significant traffic increase from fedoraproject.org to redhat.com since 1 Sep 2010

[Jared K. Smith]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Keith Watkins <kwatkins at redhat.com> wrote:

>  Tools like Omniture account for and filter out most search engine crawlers
> so that is most likely not the issue.
>
> Having worked at Omniture (now part of Adobe) in a previous life, I can
vouch for this.

Unfortunately, I don't have enough information to be able to make an
educated guess as to why we're seeing an increase in referrals from
fedoraproject.org to redhat.com.  As Paul said, the http logs from Red Hat
IT are probably going to be the most valuable in helping us find out several
key pieces of information:  1) Which page(s) on www.fedoraproject.org are
referring people to redhat.com, and 2) Are there any similarities re: User
Agent on those redirects and 3) are all the redirects going to the same page
on www.redhat.com and 4) Is there any variability in IP addresses?  Times of
day?

While Omniture's SiteCatalyst should be able to give you some of this
information, I'd love to see someone grab the HTTP logs from the server and
do some more focuses analysis.

--
Jared Smith
Fedora Project Leader
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