Thread: .woff2 file getting more views than other html pages

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I checked the cpanel awstats and found that fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2 file is getting more views than my other html pages.

I am worried about this as the traffic to my website is also decreasing. Is it because of the same reason stated above? kindly guide me with this

I notice that the file names of a couple of pages indicate that they may promote gambling. Google has some fairly strict guidelines about promoting gambling. You might check the guidelines from Google. These apply to Adwords but it would be safest to comply with their guidelines even if not promoting with Adwords.

Originally Posted by wink0r

I notice that the file names of a couple of pages indicate that they may promote gambling. Google has some fairly strict guidelines about promoting gambling. You might check the guidelines from Google. These apply to Adwords but it would be safest to comply with their guidelines even if not promoting with Adwords.

But this is not about gambling website. I have same problem with my other websites also. The files like .cur, .woff2 are getting more viewed than main html pages.

.cur and .woff2 files are not pages. These are auxiliary files. You stated that the cursor file is used on each page and I would expect that the font file is as well. These files will be called each time a page on your site is opened the first time. Unless you have a 100% bounce rate there will naturally be more calls for these files than for any one page.

Originally Posted by wink0r

.cur and .woff2 files are not pages. These are auxiliary files. You stated that the cursor file is used on each page and I would expect that the font file is as well. These files will be called each time a page on your site is opened the first time. Unless you have a 100% bounce rate there will naturally be more calls for these files than for any one page.

These files will have bad effect on my website?? Will it affect ranking? Please suggest ways to eliminate this problem.

That type of file should be completely neutral from an SEO standpoint.

Originally Posted by wink0r

That type of file should be completely neutral from an SEO standpoint.

I can't see such files getting more viewed than main pages. That for all the websites am handling as if something is wrong with what am doing. If views to such files are not imp. in terms of SEO, then I can ignore them.

The point is that they are not getting actual views themselves. The are called by the various pages that are opened to build the page in the browser. An HTML file is a set of instructions that tells the browser how to build and display the page. In your case part of the instructions tell the browser to use the font found in the .woff2 file and the cursor found in the .cur file. Every time a new page is viewed the browser calls those files to build the page.

The page that you see displayed in your browser does not exist as such on the server. Only the instructions for the browser to build the page are in the HTML file.