I know and understand the hosts vs. visitors arguement well and the analog
'How the web works' document is excellent at explaining such issues to
others keen for 'visitor counts', however...
I've seen other discussion of analog vs. WebTrends and I've been doing some
work to validate WT results with analog (I've even got close answers!).
However, looking at the 'Distinct Hosts Served' figures vs. the equivalent
WT 'Visits' and 'Unique Visitors' counts, I find analog gives a
significantly (60%+) higher count than WT does for 'Unique Visitors'.
This surprises me. I'd have thought that a strict 'Hosts count' - which I
presume means unique IP - would give a _lower_ count than a WT 'visitors'
count as WT might count as two or more 'visitors' the same IP if separated
by a significant amount of time (like >30 mins).
Anyone any ideas on why an analog 'Hosts count' should come out higher than
a WT 'visitors' count?
.../Iain
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