User Agents To Ignore
   

Many of the requests to your web server are from robots or spiders. These programs automatically browse the web, for example to compile indexes for search engines.

Although these requests are important for your site's visibility on search engines, they're not relevant for visitor behavior analysis. Therefore ClickTracks automatically removes sessions that appear to be generated from robots and spiders. It does this in three ways:

·If the session begins by requesting 'robots.txt' this and all subsequent pages from this session are ignored.  
·If the user agent contains any string in the Data directory from the file 'UserAgentsToIgnore.txt' (using partial matching) the session is ignored.  
·Finally a visitor session that repeatedly requests the same pattern of pages is ignored.