Hi Everyone, Unique Visitors commonly a mis-understood topic in web stats/traffic discussion. First off, unique visitors can be defined differently: by cookies, IP hosts, a combination of cookies and IP hosts, or by more stringent panel arrangements. Each option has strenghts and weaknesses, but it is important to understand the method used when calculating a UV. For example: UV (cookies), UV (IPs), UV (panel), UV (advanced). For example at GoStats we use UV (advanced) since we look at both cookie and IP address data to make the best assumption on who is unique. When you are asking for or displaying stats, please keep in mind these differences. Now, it becomes more complicated if you are looking for more than just daily traffic levels. (Most quotes are monthly or weekly). When you are giving monthly unique visitor values... [continue reading >] I welcome your input on the article here!
Nice. Concise and very informative. If it wasn't such a piuta to add the code to our 1000+ pages, I would look at gostats. For now, we are using GA and webalizer, and the two seem to match up pretty nicely...
@HSH, There is a quick and easy way to add code to 1000+ pages: Use http://www.wingrep.com/ (free) or use http://silveragesoftware.com/hffr.html (not free) Generally doing a search and replace for: </body> with ...code... </body> Be sure to test your results and keep a backup just in case!
I should mention, that some people might want to insert the code into the "head" of their site for obvious tracking integrity reasons. To do so it would be as simple as replacing the standard </head> in the code I provided above.