Hyperbole Alert Using those words here somehow stoke olfactory memories of a ZOT attack from the past.
Not at all.
This entire thread about "page views" and "originating site" is just about the stupidest and most web-ignorant rant yet.
For instance, many people use the Firefox web browser. It allows the use of browser extensions. One of the top five extensions for it is called FasterFox. Among other network tweaking functions, its main attraction is
dynamic preloading of links. This makes it rather hated by webmasters and by ISPs because it automatically pre-fetches all links on every page you visit.
What this means is that a single link posted at FR or at St*rmfr*nt could easily result in most of the 400 page views recorded from those two sites. So it is the browser pre-fetching those pages, not that some FReeper or St*rmfr*nter actually clicked on the link themselves.
Like I said, this thread is just plain ignorant. The fact that you don't know about this tells us a lot about the quality of your opinions on anything having to do with web traffic.
Fasterfox :: Firefox Add-ons
I use Firefox but not the FasterFox extension because I think it makes you kind of a bandwidth hog and there are times when it can actually slow down your browsing. However, there are a number of other FReepers that I know of who do use FasterFox.
Undoubtedly, St*rmfr*nt has received a number of "page views" from FR as a result of this thread, something their webmaster obviously noticed, judging by what people are posting here. And some of those are undoubtedly being caused because some FReepers are using FasterFox to pre-load every link on this thread.