Managing Bandwidth (23rd April 2008)
People would search for car names and screenshots of mods on Project Cerbera would show up. They would click these, despite not really wanting to install a GTA mod.
Inbound traffic is dominated by image searches. Here’s what I got from AWstats today:
| Site | Page Views | |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Google (Images) | 479,203 |
| 46,617 | ||
| Yahoo! | 2,323 | |
| Windows Live | 1,608 | |
| MSN Search | 1,149 | |
| Unknown search engines | 614 | |
| AOL | 482 | |
| Google (cache) | 433 | |
alice.it | 421 | |
| Ask | 78 | |
| 2006 | Google (Images) | 703,812 |
| 30,715 | ||
| MSN Search | 3,873 | |
| Yahoo! | 3,415 | |
| Unknown search engines | 926 | |
| AltaVista | 508 | |
| Baidu | 342 | |
| AOL | 269 | |
| AOL (de) | 187 | |
| Netscape | 124 | |
| 2005 | Google (Images) | 420,138 |
| 28,168 | ||
| Yahoo! | 1,656 | |
| MSN Search | 960 | |
| AOL | 657 | |
| Unknown search engines | 483 | |
| AltaVista | 482 | |
| AOL (de) | 265 | |
| Netscape | 180 | |
| Baidu | 170 | |
| 2004 | Google (Images) | 75,589 |
| 4,368 | ||
| Yahoo! | 345 | |
| AOL | 185 | |
| Unknown search engines | 159 | |
| Ask | 100 | |
| AOL (de) | 77 | |
| Virgilio | 67 | |
| MSN Search | 63 | |
| Netscape | 56 |
Today I got a 509 Bandwidth Exceeded message when trying to access the site. Checked my inbox and there was the e-mail confirming this. Chatted with Dave Bateman, my ever-friendly host. Decided to remove the site from Google Images.
Simple to do. Just added this to my robots.txt file:
# Google Image Searches (2008-04-23)
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /
After a month or two we’ll see what effect this has.
