Oh, for sure, it's easy to make SOME differenciation. Except for jackasses like me with 4 machines, with 3 different OS' and 4 different aggregators. I presume the level of jackassness is on par with mine, too, which is why subscribers=1 in anything I throw together. =)
David Meade wrote: >On 11/12/05, Brad Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>The short answer to this is.. unique IPs that hit multiple times over >>the last 24 hour period. That's what I can determine to be feedburner's >>technique. >> >>That, at least, is how I'm going to be doing the calculation. =) >> >>It doesn't account for aggregators that cache, NAT'd IPs, or anything of >>the like. But without some kind of cookie-ing system, you're probably >>not going to be able to do that. >> >> > > >Well there is some other stuff you can take into account. > >for example lets say I have 3 subscribers behind the same IP address ... > > user A requests feed with ip addess 10.10.10.10 with agent=iTunes for windows > -- > subscribers=1 > > user a requests the feed again one hour later with itunes for windows > -- > counted as the same user. subscribers=1 > >User B then 1 hour later requests feed with ip address 10.10.10.10 >with agent = fireant for windows > -- > Here we have to make a choice. Do I count this as a new >subscriber assuming there are more than one people behind this >address, or do I count this as the same user assuming he has two >aggrigators installed. Up to you, but in my system I count it as the >same user (I try to fall to the side of too strict). So in my system >... counted as the same user subscribers=1 (I've just lumped two >people together perhaps) > >User C then requests the feed from ip 10.10.10.10 with agent=fireant for Mac > --> this time we see that it's a macintosh OS where as the last from >this IP was a windows install. > --> Here I go ahead and make the assumption that this is in fact a >different user, as it is very cleraly a different machine (even though >its from the same IP) subscribers=2 > > >So as above, you'd have 3 users with the same IP address. In my >system it would count them as 2 ... > >I could have counted them as 3, but I made the rule that lumps some >together because I'd rather lose one here and there than gain 3 >because of people like me who have Fireant, iTunes, and thunderbird >all pinging away. > >IP address is important >HTTP user agent can also give you great information such as: > * client application > * client OS (sometimes) > * number of users that this requests services (sometimes) > > > >- Dave >-- >http://www.DavidMeade.com > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > -- Brad Webb, Director of Social Media Technology http://vslabs.vsocial.com/ vSocial | Custom One Media, LLC 51 W. Third Street, #301 Tempe, AZ 85281 (602) 885-2295 - Mobile (480) 967-9575 - Fax ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
