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		Flimm on March 12, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Results of the 2013 /r/Linux Distro Survey But web crawlers generate orders of magnitude more traffic than regular users.

dredmorbius on March 12, 2013 [–]

True, but if you're tracking users, you'll normalize for that (tracking cookies, bot exclusion, IP, etc.). It's somewhat nontrivial, but most web analytics packages will give you a decent first cut.

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