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[friendoffood]

Hi Travis.

Thanks for the info re Screaming Frog.

I didn't white list your IP.  I just changed the number in my files to something else, which would already be unblocked since a day has passed.

The scenario you gave would be quite rare and wouldn't create a block because that requires everything happening in 30 seconds or less (and the session wouldn't expire in that time frame), or that the same IP address also tried to crawl my site with a bot in the useragent (your scenario with screaming frog)..  But yours and Max's experience is looking more and more like it is commonplace, and I'm the fool who hasn't known that's what's happening because I can't distinguish between you and a robot (which doesn't keep sessions).

All I need is to verify that I have a sessions problem.  Here's what it takes:

1. use a desktop or laptop
2. remove all cookies related to qjamba
3. go to http://www.qjamba.com
4. choose an option (restaurants) and a location (Saint Louis) and click
5. dont do anything else - just close out the tab
6. If your ip address changes, let me know when you do this so I can find it in the logs

In all my usage it keeps the session between steps 3 and 4.  It looks like for you and Max it doesn't do that, which means many of my users would be having the same terrible experience as you, for the 3 months since it has been live.  It's a disaster.  But I have to first verify that it really is a problem and unfortunately I have to rely on strangers like you who are experiencing the problem to do that.

If you just do those steps I promise we'll be done

Thanks, Ted

[friendoffood]

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[Travis_Bailey]

Good to hear you may be getting closer to the root of the problem. Apologies that it took so long to get back to you here. I had 'things'.

I followed the steps and you should be able to determine the outcome. Spoiler Alert: No block, this time.

It's a whole other can of worms, but should you need more human testing on the cheap; you may find Mechanical Turk attractive. One could probably get a couple hundred participants for under a couple hundred dollars, with a task comparable to the one above.

Just a thought...

[friendoffood]

Thanks Travis,

I have discovered that for some users the initial page loads up to 3 times nearly immediately without it being visual.  It never happens to me or any or the browser/system combinations I use on remote machine testing - even if I match someones setup who is getting the problem, but there is no question it is happening.  This was triggering the robot message I was giving.  I don't yet know the cause as the typical culprits don't apply.  I relaxed the rule by 1 more load in 30 seconds, which is why you didn't get a message.  Am going to use someone's computer tomorrow that gets the problem to try and narrow it down.

Agree on the human testing.  Thanks for the suggestions.

take care