up vote 1 down vote favorite
share [g+] share [fb]

We have recently rolled out a web content filter. I have noticed on many users www.gravatar.com even though these users are not going to this site, nor have any program loaded that would connect to this site.

Anybody know why this would be showing up. Some google searching has mentioned possibly being attached to emails.

However, at this point, it isn't making sense.

link|improve this question
43% accept rate
Yes, that makes sense. Thank you... – jherlitz May 8 '09 at 15:57
feedback

3 Answers

up vote 6 down vote accepted

If your users are frequenting sites who use Gravatar as their avatar provider, like StackOverflow or ServerFault, you'll see a flurry of requests to gravatar.com.

Each question and answer generates a hit for the user profile back to gravatar.

link|improve this answer
2  
Just to clarify, OpenID has nothing to do with Gravatars. – David Collantes May 8 '09 at 16:18
1  
thanks David, modified my answer. I created the mental association somehow, and I misspoke. – p.campbell May 8 '09 at 20:27
feedback
up vote 3 down vote

Serverfault and Stackoverflow both use gravatar as their avatar providers.

link|improve this answer
feedback
up vote 1 down vote

Weblogs and sites they are reading uses plugins or query with APIs the gravatar.com website. For example, serverfault.com does.

link|improve this answer
feedback

Your Answer

 
or
required, but never shown
discard

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.