: How to prevent page counts by search indexers On a page I manage I store information about the most read pages and last read pages in the database. How can I manage to prevent taking into
On a page I manage I store information about the most read pages and last read pages in the database.
How can I manage to prevent taking into account accesses from search indexers?
Note that I still want the pages to be indexed. But the page read counts should only be updated for human reads and not by robots. I tried to filter out some user-agents but that approach does not seem to be ideal.
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Use your chosen language to detect the user agent. Most legitimate search engine crawlers have their own user agent to identify it as a crawler. Then you can simply ignore those user agents.
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