[Fwd: Re[2]: [thelist] Visitor Statistics]

[Daniel J. Cody]

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Subject: Re[2]: [thelist] Visitor Statistics
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 14:40:35 -0500
From: Christopher Ditty <CDitty at email.usps.gov>
To: thelist-admin <thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org>


     What about using cookies?  Would this be an efficent(sp) way to do
     this?  I recently wrote a small php script that sets a cookie and
     checks it when the user returns.  If the cookie is not present, it
     sets it and add a record to the db.  The cookie expires after 30
days.

     In the little world that is my mind, I am thinking that I can use
this
     to get a count of my unique visitors.  I know there are those that
     don't use cookies, and I am accounting for those.

     Any opinions on this?  Is it practical or did I just waste a few
hours
     in writting this code?

     CDitty


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Subject: RE: [thelist] Visitor Statistics
Author:  thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org at INTERNET
Date:    8/14/00 11:15 AM


The trick would be to include a small, transparent GIF somewhere in your
page, and call it with the full URL
(http://www.yoursite.com/images/marker.gif, for example), which would
force
the cached page to grab something from your server, at least giving you
an
indicator that there's visitors from the cached page.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Scoot [mailto:john.scoot at virgin.net]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 10:19 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Visitor Statistics


A lot of UK ISPs are now cacheing copies of sites - I assume that
visitors
to these cache sites can't be tracked through the stats packages on the
main
site server (?).
If this is so, it must be distorting the figures somewhat - has anyone
got
any reliable data on the breakdown of people visiting cached sites vs.
those
visiting the main site?
Thanks,
John


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