Jim,

Does, "You don't want to name your useragent the same as the default..." mean You don't want to give your broswer a useragent (New , string, useragent.override, type something in for a useragent) that's the same as the (default) version of the browser ?

And that's assuming that using the useragent.override function in the browser (about:config, New, String, choose a name) is what one uses to change the useragent of their browser.


So, "You don't want to name your useragent the same as the default, that would defeat the purpose." means - your browser ID is the useragent of your browser, which is the version of your browser, which is the default version of your browser that other browsers use to decide how to display their site on your browser. Browsers make use of whatever information they can get from another browsers's useragent, whereas stats cruncher websites are purposely designed to need more specific information or else stats crunchers will skip counting a site. The trick is to have your user agent contain a lot of info for other webbrowsers to make use of but misinformative for stats crunchers by simply adding miscellaneous information to the end of the useragent (even a single letter). If instead you have the useragent = to the browser version, then the stats crunchers can "see" your useragent which is what you're trying to avoid.

So I guess what you're saying is to use that useragent.override function and enter "Firefox/1.5.0.10r" and in skipuseragent = "x" for x again use "Firefox/1.5.0.10r" in the awstats.yourwebsite.com.conf file. at my webhost.



Roger