Re: % of page views from outside U.S. and Canada?

I think perhaps it could be proven if you went thru the full users for that
period. Perhaps not, but  intriguing thought!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Evans" <Chucke(at)captura.com>
To: "'David Clapper'" <dclapper(at)clioassociates.com>;
<hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 11:27 AM
Subject: RE: % of page views from outside U.S. and Canada?


| Without a detailed examination of your web site logs, looking up each and
| every IP using "whois", I'd say an accurate count of "non-US" visitors is
| nearly impossible.
|
| My web site log analysis tool (Webtrends) attempts to give statistics on
US
| vs. non-US visitors, but it relies on the top-level domain of the
visitor's
| domain. Thus, it scores each and every ".com" visitor as coming from the
US,
| as well as ".gov", ".net", ".org", and ".mil". It only scores a visitor
from
| outside the US if there is a different "dot", such as ".fr" for France,
| ".uk" for the United Kingdom, ".ca" for Canada, etc.
|
| As you can see, this is hardly an accurate measure, since many visitors
| using ".com" may come from anywhere in the world. And, conversely, there
may
| be users of non-US domains that actually live in the US.
|
| Having said all that, my logs "show me" that, for September of 2000, only
| 67% of "user sessions" could be "attributed" to one country or another
| (which right away leaves 33% of all sessions that could not be attributed
to
| ANY country). 62% of user sessions come from the "US", leaving 5% of my
| "visitors" as coming from outside the US.
|
| As the above stats should indicate, I don't think they are anything you
can
| depend on legally.
|
| Chuck Evans
| Captura, Inc.
| (425) 803-6455
| http://www.captura.com
|
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: David Clapper [mailto:dclapper(at)clioassociates.com]
| Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 6:49 AM
| To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
| Subject: % of page views from outside U.S. and Canada?
|
|
| Hello all,
|
| One of my clients is applying for some liability insurance.  One of the
| things the insurer wants to know is what % of our page views originate
from
| outside the U.S. and Canada.
|
| Is there a way to approximate this from the server logs, or some other
| mechanism?
|
| TIA ...
|
| David Clapper
| Vice-President & Chief Architect
| Clio Associates
| 70 Pavilion St.
| Rochester, NY 14620  USA
| Voice: +1.716.442.5407
| Fax: +1.716.442.5993
| Cell: +1.716.259.3699
| e-mail: dclapper(at)clioassociates.com
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|
|
|

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