Ask HN: Are 98% of HN Readers Using AdBlock?
1 pointby 7777777phil11 hours ago2 comments
  • Bender8 hours ago
    Most people on HN use ad blockers. This site also has a referrer-policy of origin [1] which some browsers and addons will ignore but most will not leave trails in your logs.

    If unsure look up the IP addresses and see if they are in data-centers or home/mobile networks. [2a][2b] Most real people will be using HTTP/2.0 assuming you log this in your web server access logs and most bots will be HTTP/1.1 with some very rare exceptions. The stinky bad bots will also show up on mobile networks but the vast majority of them will be using HTTP/1.1.

    [1] - https://securityheaders.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinato...

    [2a] - https://bgp.he.net/

    [2b] - https://bgp.tools/

  • jsheard11 hours ago
    Some of those phantom visitors might have been bots, most of which wouldn't show up on analytics simply because they don't run Javascript at all.
    • 7777777phil11 hours ago
      I thought so too at first but in the same timeframe I got 1'250 hits on my domain (stats form cloudflare dashboard where I have my domain registered), baseline is ~100/h so I assumed the delta there would be bots..