>> consistent also. Since many surfers spend quite a lot of time on the photos
>> of gorgeous women, do you think it's a safe assumption that most surfers
>> are unemployed males?
Javlik wrote:
> Sadly, steadiness is not an indication of human activity...
> What is the hourly breakdown?
> Does this shift between weekday and weekend?
> What is the ISP breakdown?
> What is the referer breakdown?
For each day, I get a log file with approx 2 mb of data that looks like this:
166.72.89.188, 8/27/98, 0:04:33, 1328, 377, 3511, 200, 0, GET, /Default.htm,
166.72.89.188, 8/27/98, 0:04:34, 953, 355, 3521, 200, 0, GET, /maintop.htm,
166.72.89.188, 8/27/98, 0:04:35, 1125, 353, 2689, 200, 0, GET, /tlcbg.htm,
166.72.89.188, 8/27/98, 0:04:35, 2000, 354, 5042, 200, 0, GET, /splash.htm,
<BIG snip>
153.37.75.208, 8/27/98, 0:05:45, 922, 323, 2689, 200, 0, GET, /tlcbg.htm,
153.37.75.208, 8/27/98, 0:05:45, 1328, 325, 3521, 200, 0, GET, /maintop.htm,
153.37.75.208, 8/27/98, 0:05:45, 1281, 324, 5042, 200, 0, GET, /splash.htm,
I worked out a makeship way of interpreting the files with BBEdit: I search
and replace the name of a page file, and it tells me how many occurrences
of the file name there were. I don't know of any way to check for peak
times of day.
I do have a sense of where in WebRing they're coming from, because I have
access to the stats for the WebRing banners. Currently about 30% come from
a Game ring, 30% from two Nude rings, 5% from Erotic, and 5% from Gay. That
last figure is interesting, because the male actors' photos get very few
hits in comparison to the females'--perhaps it's a lesbian ring, but I'm
not interested in checking it out for myself.
> It is very easy to create a script under Unix that just keeps rolling
>around through pages to give the impression of people browsing... Doing it
>convincingly when scrutinized, is another matter.
There would be no point in WebRing's people faking stats, because the whole
idea is that they would get a commission on sales of TLC. They don't get
paid by the click-through. In fact they don't get paid at all.
> Can you commission a study? I'll write the scripts to do it... I am
>already working on similar things. See http://www.mall-net.com/webcons/
>
I appreciate the offer, but I imagine at this point the client would look
at it as throwing good money after bad. Fortunately the WebRing-connected
version of their site costs them little. Right now we're looking at
rearranging the link icons, and I'm simply trying to guess at a logical
approach to arranging them. Unfortunately, I doubt there's any arrangement
that will convert unqualified buyers into qualified buyers.
Suz
Suzanne Stephens, Dave Stephens Design; Ashland, Oregon
541-552-1190, 541-1192 http://www.KickassDesign.com/
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