Crazy hitbot?
 

I have a site that's 4-5 months old. Currently, I'm getting about 1-2 unique hits every minute, half of them continue to the sponsor, but also they do a second page hit.

Interesting thing is that whoever activated that hitbot doesn't pass any referring URL, otherwise said in my stats it says:

Ref: No referer
Raw: 1962
Unique: 500
Sponsor hits: 267
Ratio: 1:2

Any idea?!? :D

-- Andrew

Do they have different IPs?

Yes

check to make sure you are not getting hit by either a site scraper or one of those very strange and stupid bots. I have had a couple of bots in the past make a total mess of my stats, clicking on everything, running in circles, and generally being really stupid.

However, if you are getting a LARGE spread of IPs, here is something to try:

On your page, put a hidden link off before everything else. Send it to drudge or something. Then recheck your stats.

:-)

Alex