Digital wrote: > When I host my media I check my stats program (webalizer) to see > number of requests for the file and the total KB downloaded. Using > these numbers can tell me a few things (number of reqests, avg view %). > > What happens when I have it hosted on a third party, or perhaps > multiple formats to download? > > I guess my question to all you stat geeks is how do you do get, what > you consider, very accurate counts on viewership?
I've given up on accurate, like most of the web geeks... What I do is the following. Instead of using a url like this: http://www.archive.org/download/foo/foo.mov I use this for the link in the weblog post: http://foo.com/hit.cgi/http://www.archive.org/download/foo/foo.mov And this in my feed for the enclosure url: http://foo.com/enclose.cgi/http://www.archive.org/download/foo/foo.mov What the hit.cgi and enclose.cgi do is use a 302 Found header to redirect the client to the actual file, which gets logged on my server. This allows my stats programs to get some data on downloads/views. It's not perfect, but stats never are... It is interesting on occasion. Pete -- http://tinkernet.org/ videoblog for the future... 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/
