This module takes the favicon for the current site/theme and makes it available at the url example.com/favicon.ico (where example.com is your domain). The problem is that some web browsers and web applications blindly make a call to example.com/favicon.ico looking for your sites favicon. In drupal this causes an error entry to show up in the logs because there is nothing there.
If you want your icon to show at that address you can put a copy of your favicon n the root drupal directory. But, what if you have a multisite configuration with different favicons. This module will allow that address to show the current themes favicon at example.com/favicon.ico and it will work for multisite configurations.
Configuration
For this module to work properly you need to:
Drupal 6: enable the core 'Shortcut' module
Drupal 6/7: comment out #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico in the Drupal root .htaccess file
Provides a few advanced options to the core Statistics module. Once enabled, these options can be found under "Administer >> Reports >> Access log settings."
Administrators can assign the 'exclude visits from counters' to discard content views from certain user roles. This offers nearly the same functionality as the Decounter module and should not be used at the same time.
Discard access log records by user role
If you have certain users that are active behind the scenes in your site, you can remove their entries from the access log table to help keep it trimmed down (more relevant statistics about your site's visitors and possibly improved database performance).
Discard access log records by crawlers and bots
Integrates with the Browscap module to not log visits from search engine crawlers and bots. This will not affect your site's ability to record visitor referrers from search engines.