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Why would many corporate networks be blocking services that record hits for web sites. I use StatCounter, and have a piece of code on my web page that tries to "ping" an address there, which records the hit, where I can examine the logs later.
Recently, I have found that my firewall logs are recording far more hits than what statcounter is doing. After investigating this, by surfing my site thorugh open proxies on corporate networks, I have figured out that StatCounter, and other services that record web sites are being blocked on many corporate networks.
Why would they want to block the "ping" that many web sites send to StatCounter, and other "hit counter' service. Its only a few hundred bytes, and allowing the pings to go through to the various hit-counter services are not going to be that much of an impact on the network, so there is no sense in blocking the ping that many web sites are configured to send back to the various hit counter services.
It took me a while to figure out what was going on. I am seeing hits from many corporate networks in the firewall logs that do not show on on StatCounter, becuase corporate network admins have choen to block the pings that are sent back to the hit-counter services.
seeing HUNDREDS of hits an hour from corporate networks in Asia, to my web site, during the workday in Asia. I am seeing hits to my web site , on port 80, from many corporate networks all over China, Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong, in the firewall logs, that do not show up in StatCounter.
Corporate network admins really need to get a 'effin grip. Allowing the hits to any web site to show up in StatCounter, for the webmasters to examine, is NOT going to undermine the network. Corporate network admins need to ligthen up a little.