Wednesday, August 05, 2009

AOL Proxy Cache

I noticed this IP and related IPs were hitting our sites a ton:

207.200.116.13

A reverse look up of the domain shows this IP is:

cache-ntc-aa09.proxy.aol.com

I'm personally not a fan of other networks caching and hosting our content. That's bad for us because we cannot accurately track who hit our site when and how they found us.

This may be some email related cache but we'd also like to see those image hits if possible.

As far as I can tell this is not a positive thing for our site except to reduce bandwidth - but that's bad if we cannot tell who viewed the images in the mail so we can accurately measure email campaigns.