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Tag Archives: website visitors
Why cPanel AWStats Shows 90%+ of Website Visits as 0–30 Seconds (And Why It’s Normal)
If you have ever opened your website analytics and looked at the Visits Duration report, you may have felt a sudden wave of concern.
You see that the majority of your visits - sometimes 90% or more - appear in the shortest duration category:
0 seconds to 30 seconds.
Does that mean visitors are leaving immediately? Is your content failing? Is your website not engaging people?
Before assuming the worst, it helps to understand what your analytics system is
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Posted in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Website Traffic
Tagged AI crawlers, awstats, bots, cpanel, cpanel awstats, crawlers, disables cookies, engage visitors online, engagement, google analytics, javascript, server-level vs script-based analytics, tracking script, visit duration, web hosting, website visitors
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Blocking Copy/Paste or Right-Click: Will It Hurt SEO or Just Frustrate Users?
Many website owners consider preventing visitors from copying content or using right/left mouse clicks. At first glance, it seems like a way to protect your work - but is it worth it? Is it a good idea? And could it hurt your SEO or the user experience on your website?
How Search Engines See Your Content
Google and other search engines don’t care if visitors can copy your text or right-click on your pages. Crawlers read your HTML source code,
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Posted in Ask David!, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Tagged accessibility, batch watermarking, block copy paste, bounce rate, canonical tags, content protection, copyscape, duplicate content, engagement, html, indexable, right-click disable, search engine optimization, seo, SEO impact, usability, user experience, user-friemdly, view page source, watermark, watermarking tool, website usability, website visitors
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Browsers People Use to Visit Your Website – And the Surprise Visitor We Got This Week
It's Spring 2025. You might think everyone is browsing the web with the latest version of Chrome, Safari, or Firefox these days - but that’s not always the case. In fact, we recently had a surprising visit from someone using Internet Explorer 9.0. Yep, IE 9, which was released in 2011 and officially discontinued by Microsoft years ago, is still making rare appearances on the web.
This unexpected visit inspired us to dive deeper into what browsers users
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Posted in Website Traffic
Tagged accessibility, all browser-friendly, apple safari, bloat, browser compatibility, browser usage, css3, fallbacks, google analytics, google chrome, html5, ie, internet browsers, internet explorer, microsoft, microsoft edge, mobile-friendly, modern browsers, modern code, modern web standards, mozilla firefox, opera, optimize website, outdated coding practices, polyfills, responsive, responsive app, site performance, standardized code, The W3C Markup Validation Service, webp, webp converter, website performance, website traffic, website visitors
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What is a contextual backlink? How does it compare to the regular backlinks? What are the pros and cons?
A contextual backlink is a link that appears naturally within the text of a web page. It is considered to be a higher-quality backlink than a regular backlink because it is more relevant to the content of the page.
For example, if you have a website about how to cook food for your dog, a contextual backlink would be a link to your website that appears within an article about cooking food for your dog. A regular backlink would be
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Posted in Ask David!, Website Traffic
Tagged backlinks, drive traffic, search engine ranking, website traffic, website visitors
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Google Analytics vs Awstats – which is better, more accurate, useful?
It can be very useful to check your website traffic statistics as you are working on growing your website popularity and reach.
You want to increase your website visitors and want to know:
- Which pages are getting the most attention
- How your website visitors are finding your website
- Which search terms they are using
- Which website URLs are referring them to your website
- From which pages they enter into your website
- From which pages they leave on your website
Posted in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Website Traffic
Tagged awstats, cookies, google analytics, google analytics vs awstats, hot linking, javascript, privacy, referring website, search terms, seo, server-level vs script-based analytics, traffic statistics, visit duration, website visitors
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