Comments on: AVG Destroys Web Analytics

By: F900 Cameraman

F900 Cameraman — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:13:40 +0000

I had this happen over a three day period increasing my web traffic around 1900%. They all came from unique URLs, as you mentioned during certain times of the day.

It was bizarre and confusing.

Thanks you for looking into this and for your blog. Not even my hosting company knew the answer.

By: IDSEO

IDSEO — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:52:27 +0000

Sorry – I have been on holiday and just getting back to this now. I appreciate your confirmation on this. Thanks.

By: osblues

osblues — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:16:53 +0000

IDSEO, apologies for the long delay on this one, things have been pretty hectic at work.

I can confirm that LinkScanner DOES NOT execute any javascript on pages and therefore Google Analytics is unaffected.

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Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:05:14 +0000

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By: Zero Day mobile edition

Zero Day mobile edition — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:11:06 +0000

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By: Judah Phillips at Web Analytics Demystified » Blog Archive » AVG Link Scanner Bot Executes JavaScript!!!!!!

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:11:41 +0000

[...] here. Read the Register’s first article here. And check out the dude’s blog who broke the news first and responses from AVG here and [...]

By: IDSEO

IDSEO — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:22:46 +0000

Thanks – I would appreciate that.

By: osblues

osblues — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:29:29 +0000

IDSEO – To be honest, there are probably only two groups of people who know for sure on that, Google and AVG. When Roger Thompson’s team at AVG get back to me, I will ask them.

I have also set up some custom filters in a test Google Analytics profile to see if I can spot anything from the UserAgent AVG are using.

I’ll post here with updates.