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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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