Hotlinking images....70% of my traffic?
So I was going over my stats page today, trying to see what traffic was coming from and why, when I did some math.
70% of my montly bandwidth (bandwidth, not hits) is hotlinking. Hotlinking is where you call an image from a server directly, bypassing the html page in which it was embedded.
Here's the top 3 violaters:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm 34.5%
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/54575 13.2%
http://club.chinaren.com/74143745.html 8.6%
Man I gotta do something about that today....that's just crazy. No wonder I"m pumping out 40gb a month
Comments
Yeah, thats happened to Ginny and I too.
We found a nifty .htaccess technique that replaces the image they requested with something else ... so it looks really stupid on the person hotlinking.
Try hotlinking to http://gallery.fallingrock.net/albums/MortonArboretum-2006-07/IMG_7776.thumb.jpg in one of your pages :)
Posted by: david | September 8, 2006 08:41 AM
yeah, i've been looking at .htaccess methods. i was playing around with them last friday when my server crashed....so I put it off.
The haha guy....better than barney. I was thinking I'd just do an html redirect to my main page instead when you click on a hotlinked picture. I'm not sure.
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September 8, 2006 08:51 AM
mod_rewrite will be your best friend. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mod+rewrite+hotlinking
Posted by: Danne | September 8, 2006 08:55 AM
Actually, I don't think you can change the site the image links to using rewrite rules ... you can only change the actual image that gets sent.
Posted by: david | September 8, 2006 03:44 PM
well a few things I was reading about left me with the impression that it was possible....but since i can't use mod_rewrite it's kind of a moot point.
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September 8, 2006 04:07 PM