what do you consider a unique visitor? a visit from the same person after 1 hour elapsed from the time they left, 6hours,24 hrs? I'm setting up a tracker and its asking me to set the timer,I thought it would be 24 hrs, any suggestions?
I expect unique visitors are people who have never visited before. Otherwise all your visitors will be unique.
hmmm I'm using www.statcounter.com ------------------------------------ Maximum Visit Length Used to calculate your unique and returning visitors from a cookie. If this amount of time or more has elapsed since a visitor last visited a page on your website, then that visitor is considered unique. We recommend setting it between 1 and 6 hours. We don't recommend setting it to 24 hours and above. --------------- I have the option from 30 minutes to a week to adjust this, what should I choose?
I usualy say unique ip address per 24 hour period. Most sites that track hits use this one. Ip addresses can change for same user every time they sign off internet useing dial up. they get new ip address each time they log on. Try 6 hours.