Re: UKNM: Web Usage Stats

[Sean Clark]

>While it's admirable of Sean to publish these figures, and I for

>one am always interested in such statistics, I can't help pointing

>out that to infer anything about what users in general use from 

>such information is inherently flawed.


Thanks for the feedback. I agree with much of what you are saying. The 

figures we quote are based on visits to only 10 sites and as such it 

can't necessarily be assumed that they represent the Web as a whole.


However, the 10 sites we use (customer confidentiality prevents me from 

naming them) are broad in their appeal and do get many thousands of hits 

per day. Also, the stats are based on *visitor* numbers not just page 

hits. So, for example, a person who visits the home page of one of our 

sites and then (for what ever reason) leaves straight away would count 

the same as someone who spent 30 minutes browsing the site generating 

hundreds of page hits.


I take your point about the utility of stats, but I also think that as 

much information as possible about what people "out there" are using to 

visit Web sites can only help site design.


Cheers,


Sean


P.S. If anybody wants to suggest some other sites that give Web browser 

stats I'll gladly link to them from our page (so long as they're not 

competitors of course :-D).



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