Multiple calls from via ggpht.com GoogleImageProxy agent

Question

I am seeing increased number of calls from via ggpht.com GoogleImageProxy agent for some of the URL fetches. Details: I have put in an image in the email html body. When I open the email, I expect a call to be made to my server to fetch this image. However, since Gmail uses its proxy server, I see multiple calls made at regular intervals (about ~500 calls per image. In one instance I have logs for 5000 calls for one image as well).

Any idea why the same image is fetched so many times?

Nonresistance

I am seeing multiple calls from user agent "YahooMailProxy; help.yahoo.com/kb/yahoo-mail-proxy-SLN28749.html " as well. This is yahoo's image proxy server. – Nonresistance

looks like gmail Apache logs flooded with connections - “(via ggpht.com GoogleImageProxy)” – Alliterative

Answer 1

This is an old question but because this is served by Google search: GoogleImagProxy anonymizes Gmail openings. So, if you use a newletter or auto-responder and somebody opens an email containing an image, usear-agent shows as GoogleImageProxy.

Coextend