Can anyone tell me what this means:

[snap624]

Under page tracking the method says: HEAD. What does that indicate? It usually says: GET or POST . I don't know what this indicates. The ip address was associated with Amazon. We are a stand alone store and do no business with Amazon or for Amazon. Could anyone enlighten me as to why they would hit my site in this way? Thanks.

[mikek]

HEAD is useful when you want information about a page, but don't actually want to see the page itself. It's most useful to check if a page exists, or when it was last modified. The biggest users of HEAD requests are proxies and search engines, which use HEAD requests to check whether or not they have
a current copy of the page in their cache. If the last-modified date returned in the HEAD matches what the proxy has cached, then a whole page lookup
is saved. The request is most probably coming from Alexa (owned and operated by Amazon).

[snap624]

Thank you for the information. I was just curious. Now I know.