From f7341f5a5159c0d6a15e18dfae649127804b0712 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kyle Drake <kyle@kyledrake.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:02:23 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] add note about improved stats

---
 views/contact.erb | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/views/contact.erb b/views/contact.erb
index 1ea50fd7..ef7b1c8e 100644
--- a/views/contact.erb
+++ b/views/contact.erb
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@
     <div class="accordion-group">
       <div class="accordion-heading">
         <a class="accordion-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" href="#hitsviews">
-          What is the difference between hits and views?
+          What is the difference between hits and views in the site stats?
         </a>
       </div>
       <div id="hitsviews" class="accordion-body collapse">
@@ -270,6 +270,8 @@
           </p>
 
           <p>We don't provide a way to look at individual visitor records on Neocities, the main reason being that the information isn't very useful anymore, since most sources block HTTP Referer headers, making it difficult to determine origin.</p>
+
+          <p>As of Feb 21, 2024, we have deployed code that will detect and not count views from known bots and crawlers, which should make the views count much more accurate for showing organic traffic. You may observe a drop in views before and after this time.</p>
         </div>
       </div>
     </div>