Unique visitor counts are not possible. Ever. Any logging package that tells you they have it are lying.

You cannot possibly know how many visitors are coming in from behind a corporate firewall, a home NAT'ed network, or AOL, because there's no 1-1 correlation between these users and their IP address, as the fake log analyzer people would have you believe. (It's actually even worse for AOL, because one user will appear to be coming from dozens of IP addresses at the same time.)

So, get over it. You can't get that info. Stop asking. Your life will be simpler. {grin}

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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In reply to •Re: web page statistics by merlyn
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