thanks ;))
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: [analog-help] number of visitors
> >> > > How can I plot "hourly number of visitors connected to my site" ?
> >> >
> >> > What do you mean by visitors? Analog does not count visitors
> >> > (http://analog.sourceforge.net/docs/webworks.html). You can see the
> >> > number of unique hosts in the General Summary of that's what you
want.
> >>
> >> Oh Ok,that is actually what I want..
> >> Can I get "unique host number versus hourly report" then?
>
> You will get a nice number out of this report, but it won't bear any
> relationship to reality. Most ISPs use proxy servers, meaning that all
> their users appear to be the same host. For instance, about half the
> population of Great Britain use the Energis facility (formerly POL),
meaning
> that all these millions of people arrive from one of five addresses. And
it
> works the other way too. When someone using AOL surfs the web, each page
> request may get assigned to a random proxy. So the same visitor
originates
> from hundreds of different hosts across the AOL network.
>
> "Unique hosts" is in no way related to "number of visitors". There is no
> way to get a "number of visitors" count. The web doesn't work like that.
> If you have a manager who won't listen and demands these numbers, then
fine,
> rename any on Analog's reports and call it a "Visitor Report". But don't
> let yourself be fooled into thinking that hosts==visitors.
> --
> | Neil D. Fraser, Programmer & Wizard, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | Digital Routes, Inverness, Scotland, www.digitalroutes.co.uk
>
>
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