Hi!
On our intranet, our MediaWiki system is spidered each day by our web crawler. Unfortunately this throws off the hit totals in Special:Statistics. Is there any way to prevent spider hits from being logged as hits by Special:Statistics?
I don't want to sound radical, but $wgDisableCounters=true is what I always recommend to everyone. This cuts execution time reasonably (per http://dammit.lt/2007/01/26/ mediawiki-performance-tuning/ :-)
BR,