On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Dave Witzel wrote:
>
> Basically, all log stats are estimates of what we _really_ want to know. We
> would really like to know 1) how many different people visit a site, 2) how
> many come back, 3) how much stuff they look at, 4) how valuable they find
> that stuff to be.
Well, yes, but analog doesn't attempt to measure any of this. It only reports
things you can know. It doesn't try and interpret them for you, or make
guesses about things you can't know.
>
> as kind of a p.s., do you know of any resources that help interprete web
> statistics? i'd like to know more about things like the general
> characteristics of unknown domains, average session lengths, general growth
> trends, etc. to compare our sites against.
No, I've never seen anything like that. Anyone else?
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