On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Alejandro Fernandez wrote:
>
> On the other hand, if the people are actually logging in, using cookie
> authentication, or somehow by other means, then their username will turn
> up in the log files, ready ofr analysis!
>
> If this is the case, then a simple grep of the logfiles for that name will
> give a decent walkthrough of what that user did. OK this only works if you
> are authenticating users, but it would be worth building a script to
> calculate what the average path through a website is, or how much time a
> user stays on a given news story, etc. Has anyone done this?
>
You also have to
(1) Refuse to let people in who don't authenticate/take a cookie/whatever;
(2) Refuse to let them cache any pages so you can see if they revisit a
page.
But this
(1) Shuts out potential visitors from your site;
(2) Increases traffic on the network;
(3) Increases load on your server;
(4) Makes the site much slower to navigate, thus putting people off again.
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