On Thursday, June 30, 2005 10:13 AM [GMT+1=CET], ken doo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I read somewhere that a good way to get better/more correct result is > to use the combination of IP and User Agent. How would that be better? If I get a different IP address from my ISP every day, I'm going to have a unique (IP + browser) combo every day. If I keep the same IP address, I'm going to become a new unique user once a month when I apply a patch from Microsoft of Mozilla. As far as I can see, the combination of browser and IP address is only like to make a single user appear as multiple users. And the vast majority of users on a Corporate intranet will be using the same version of browser, so they'll show the same user-agent and the same IP address, so that's not going to fly. > Does Analog have a parameter to extract the 'uniques' based on this > combination? There are many different definitions of "unique", especially in this day and age of people using multiple browsers. If you really want to define unique "users", then a username/password is really the only reliable way to do it - any other measure will only be an approximation, of varying degrees of inaccuracy. Aengus +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general +------------------------------------------------------------------------
