On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Dave Witzel wrote:
> I've been using Analog to do log crunching on some large log files and then
> importing the computer readable format to Access to do specialized analysis.
> It works really nicely and we've been able to generate some very helpful
> results. However, we fall back on WebTrends to get a calculation of "user
> sessions" and "average length of user session" (in minutes). I know these
> numbers may be a little flaky but they are also very useful.
They are worse than "a little flaky", they are totally bogus. Let me give
you an example.
AOL now allocates its customers a different IP number for every request to
your server. So if one person requests your home page and that home page
has 10 graphics on, Webtrends will count it as 11 separate visitors. You
still want to use it knowing that?
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