On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Adrian Dolling wrote: > I concur with James' expansions. There are many proxies for visitor > measures (particularly when interested in how the number varies over time, > or between different parts of the same website). The difficult part > (expanded below) is when you need an absolute count to compare with other > kinds of visit statistics (e.g. turnstiles). >
The other difficult part is trying to get two programs to agree. Visitor counts seem very sensitive to the exact methodology used. See http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/projects/uir/pubs/pdf/UIR-R-1999-02-Pirolli-WebJournal-Paths.pdf (228 kB), for example. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
