runboy
Key Veteran
Location: Denmark
| Regarding the stats issue:
realize there is no way to tell 100% exactly how many people visit a site on a daily basis. You can get close, but never 100%
You can use cookies, but 10-15% of all users have them disabled, so you would have an under count. You could then use IP address to track the remaining 10-15%, but that wouldn't be 100% accurate.
Also realize that using IP addresses doesn't necessarily create an over count. It could also work the other way and create an under count. ISP's reuse IP addresses, so two different users can easily end up with the same IP. The longer the timeframe and the more users we are talking about, the more likely the under count will be.
Even some countries seem to have a limited amount of IP addresses going out from the country. I have noticed that a lot of different users from Saudi come to my site from the same few IP addresses.
I am not just blowing hot air here. I have extensive statistics to back this up. I run the Aviation Top 100 list on my site http://www.avitop.com/ and we keep track of almost a thousand aviation sites traffic. Our tracking server handles more than a million users on a daily basis and just one days worth of log files is around 200mb.
[url]http://www.avitop.com/[/url] |
