For some time now I was wondering why every month my 404 redirection page is getting a fair share of hits. Clicking through back and forth I wasn’t able to find anything. Today as I looked in the icon cache of the feedreader that I use, I discovered that my own icon contains my 404 page.

So, my 404 page was definitely getting redirected from non-existent favicons.ico. My 404 page gets robots.txt too. Mystery solved. I wonder if there are any other types of files that are implicitly sought by clients???

Update: Now that I know about it, I looked into the apache logs directly, instead of those generated from awstats. And there one can see clearly what the problem was.