We use anonymous cookies to identify unique visitors to our sites and
determine things like requests/visitor, etc. It's not perfect but it works
pretty well, as long as your time-scale is short enough that you can make
insignificant the probability that many users have lost/deleted their
Matt,
You could try looking at the referrer info -- are the "shoppers" connecting
from some site that is sending you traffic or is it just that they are "typing
in" your URL. Robots are not likely to carry referrer data.
Second, you could do some IP/DNS reasearch. Where are the "shoppers"
