Hello all! I’m encountering some strange behavior on my piwik install, and am wondering if anyone else has run into this.
So, I have this log entry from my nginx log:
10.114.10.254 - - [18/Dec/2012:04:58:16 +0000] “GET /phx.php?action_name=bla.com&idsite=35&rec=1&r=284588&h=21&m=44&s=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fm.bla.com%2FSmartDeviceBATMobile%2FSmartDeviceDefault.aspx&_id=2b868a5ccb12d9bb&_idts=1297046644&_idvc=1&_idn=1&_refts=0&_viewts=1297046644&cookie=1&res=640x394&_cvar=%7B%221%22%3A%5B%22vtrack%22%2C%2230209679%22%5D%2C%222%22%3A%5B%22pid%22%2C%222724017%22%5D%2C%223%22%3A%5B%22cid%22%2C%22429866%22%5D%7D HTTP/1.1” 200 54 “http://m.bla.com/SmartDeviceBATMobile/SmartDeviceDefault.aspx” “Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.3; en-us; MID8125 Build/GRI40) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1” “98.22.96.165”]
(I have changed the URLs to obfuscate client identity). There are two things to note here:
- The web server log entry says Dec 18, 2012
- the value of _viewts = 1297046644, which is Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:44:04 -0500
This seems… not right, considering that the site in question was created in January 2012. Has anyone else run into this issue? I have only two guesses here:
- since _viewts is set in the JS tracker using javascript’s Date object, then perhaps the user’s system time is just not set right.
- This isn’t “real” traffic, just someone manually setting _viewts in the request
Both seem a little far fetch, but perhaps someone else has some ideas? To give an idea about volume, this happened for about ~190 visits out of about 2 million visits.