What kind of information do you in the stats for the bot? Anyway, this not either deliberate choice of Statcounter or accidental.
The usual bots are not Javascript or image enabled, so you should not see them at all in the stats. But some bots are image enabled and they scan sites for images to index, so those bots get logged since 3rd party counters like Statcounter use a small image to be ...
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Started 1 month, 1 week ago by richards1052
I consistently see Googlebot visits in my Statcounter stats. I'd prefer not to count such visits since they're not "human" visits. Does anyone know whether this is a deliberate choice of Statcounter or something accidental?
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richards1052 replied 1 month, 1 week ago
Here is what I see:
Host Name crawl-66-249-71-38.googlebot.com IP Address 66.249.71.38 [Label IP Address] Country United States Region California City Mountain View ISP Google Inc
Size: 491 bytes
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