[thelist] Third-party stats recommendation

Chris George chris at bluspherestudio.com
Tue Sep 10 12:06:01 CDT 2002


Hi Carole,

Good question. tracking bandwidth is easy though - that's just the raw
data that gets sent to/from an IP .  In other words, it's very accurate
to track.  There can be hidden culprits for racking up bandwidth too:
viruses.

As for visits, they're pretty much completely arbitrary numbers.  Each
stats package will more than likely report a different # of visits on
the same log file.  There are a couple good explanations for it, but of
course back-in-the-day it became popular and now it won't go away.
Their high inaccuracy is precisely why the creator of Analog won't
implement them (or other features for that matter that require 'educated
guessing').

Anyway. Hope that helps!

Chris.

On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 03:05 AM, carole guevin wrote:

> :> I've recently had some problems with WebTrendsLive and am looking to
> use
>
> :We use Webalizer <http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/> and it works pretty
> :tracked 'Visits' (for the Marketing Folk) - some of the others, like
> Analog
> :don't.
>
> Are these stats software accurate?
[snip]
> If a HP was to bill for 4.5Gig of additional bandwidth transfer (and
> email
> transfer or ftp transfer can't account for it), could it be possible
> that
> such could be additional visitors to site and not be accounted for by
> web
> stats? How does one go about monitoring *bandwidth* transfer then?




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