Re: Intepreting Site Statistics

by "David Pippen" <gadale(at)earthlink.net>

 Date:  Wed, 3 May 2000 12:57:13 -0400
 To:  <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>,
"George Bray" <listoid(at)linkalarm.com>
 Cc:  "Jim Tom Polk" <jtpolk(at)texas.net>
 References: 
  todo: View Thread, Original
So that being said what can you describe hits as being
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Bray" <listoid(at)linkalarm.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Cc: "Jim Tom Polk" <jtpolk(at)texas.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 5:29 AM
Subject: Re: Intepreting Site Statistics


> 
> 
> Just a small addition to Jim's excellent answer:
> 
> Not all browsers pass a referrer to your server, notably IE4 and 
> probably many prior versions.
> 
> Another good log analyzer is Funnel Web at 
> http://www.activeconcepts.com/ - they have a demo.  The pro version 
> show "click streams" or "mean paths" - the most commonly followed 
> links through your site.  Very interesting stats for optimizing a 
> site.
> 
> George
> 
> At 5:34 AM -0500 3/5/00, Jim Tom Polk wrote:
> >Referrers is where a request came from. When a web page is requested
> >from your server, the link that was clicked to get to your page is
> >included in the request for your web page.
> >
> >For instance, if someone is at the page http://someserer.com/index.html,
> >and clicks a link that takes them to http://yourserver.com/index.html,
> >the url that was clicked to get the user from someserver.com to
> >yourserver.com is included in the request and is logged as
> >http://someserver.com/index.html -- a referrer!
> -- 
> George Bray
> http://linkalarm.com
> LinkAlarm - Web Site Link Validation Service
> 
> 

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