I recently stumbled onto a very awkward contradiction in stats software on a ISP server. It is using Live Stats log statistics - I beleive by Media Metrix.
Problem is - I realized a trend on all .cfm generated pages. Browser agents are reporting a specific contradiction in the User Agent Analysis screens.
For example - I see Netscape 4.x have 23% (the #2 top agent) of visitors in one area and in the next report - the the #2 spot belongs to MSIE.
Why am I posting this on a coldfusion site? ONLY .cfm based sites have this contradiction while all others are reporting accurately without this "flip"
I obviously beleive it is a stat software bug, but thought I would get some insight here. Is it possible while pages are being processed by coldfusion the agent tags are altered in any way???
Thanks for ANY insight - So far the only common issue between all misreported sites is coldfusion. They are on different servers at the isp, running with all non .cfm sites reporting accurately - and all cfm based sites with the same - Netscape 4x Misreport. I posted a low traffic site - with stats from the last 4 days.
Thanks in advance!
Jay Miller
Here is a snap shot of the report -
===================== report ==============================
Most active browsers by type and version:
AOL 4.x with 3940 sessions (65.59% of all sessions)
Netscape 4.x with 1388 sessions (23.11% of all sessions)
MSIE 5.x with 393 sessions (6.54% of all sessions)
Netscape 5.x with 158 sessions (2.63% of all sessions)
Unknown with 73 sessions (1.22% of all sessions)
Netscape 3.x with 22 sessions (0.37% of all sessions)
MSIE 4.x with 15 sessions (0.25% of all sessions)
WebTV 2.x with 7 sessions (0.12% of all sessions)
AOL 5.x with 6 sessions (0.10% of all sessions)
Netscape 2.x with 4 sessions (0.07% of all sessions)
Opera 3.x with 1 sessions (0.02% of all sessions)
View Browsers by Agent Type Report
Most browsers by brand preference:
AOL with 3946 sessions (65.69% of all sessions)
MSIE with 1759 sessions (29.28% of all sessions)
Netscape with 222 sessions (3.70% of all sessions)
Other with 72 sessions (1.20% of all sessions)
WebTV with 7 sessions (0.12% of all sessions)
Opera with 1 sessions (0.02% of all sessions)
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