UKNM: Usage statistics - the truth?

[Bob Smith]

Looking through the archive there are lots of programs that can analyse our

log files and give us a summary. However, how do people actually find out

the number of unique visitors to their sites? We can see sessions, but it

seems that some ISP visitors create dozens of sessions each time they come,

such as Freeserve and AOL, which surely skews the results? I've seen reports

of sites that say how many unique visitors they get per month but they must

be using something other than analysing their log files.


Any help here?


Thanks


Bob

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