Most of you will have at least one friend who is obsessed with the web stats program. That may very well be me. If you want to have some fun with said friend, read on.
It turns out that someone had copied the source code of my Google Maps housing project and was hosting it on their own website, but forgot to remove my Analytics references. Whenever someone hit the page on their site, it would thus register as a hit in my analytics.
But what really interested me was how easily you could scew a websites statistics by simply adding a couple lines of javascript to the source code of your own site. If your website generated enough traffic, you could effectively render a target websites Analytics meaningless.
Want to scew the statistics of a friends website, how about a competitor? Look up their source code, plug it into your website header and laugh. But don’t worry you could run multiple accounts, and hit them both on each page. That way you can keep your stats flowing just like normal.
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