UKNM: Re: UKNM Digest V1 #220 : Question on logs

[mreeves]

Tough question! For a start unique hosts is not much help these days in

determining unique visitors - for example virtually all of Freeserve's users

come through 1 of about 30 proxies which means no matter how many freeserve

users visit your site, your only going to log about 30 unique hosts. As well

as the problem with proxies there is also the issue that the majority of

isp's these days use dynamic IP addresses.


I would recommend using cookies to track unique users and then analyse your

log files with a commercial log analysis package such as webtrends (don't

get me wrong I love analog as it does analysis in a fraction of the time but

it could do with some more reports). While this approach is far from perfect

it will certainly give you a better idea.


The only accurate way to evaluate the number of unique visitors is to make

them all register!


Regards

Martin


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> Subject: Question on logs

> From: Anthony Appleby

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> If I have 200,000 unique hosts a month, (according to Analog log

> data) how many unique visitors do I have?

>

> (Thanks to Tristan Palmer at Corpex for the enlightenment :)

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> Anthony Appleby

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