Unique visitors (check by ip)
No, IP Address is not a visitor. Corporations and ISPs using proxy caches engage all hits as if they are a single IP address. And AOL uses multiple proxies, so the same AOL user can fetch from multiple IP addresses in a single page hit!

Do not be fooled into thinking IP == user. Do not permit statistics to be reported as such. To do so is unethical. You can report it as "unique IP addresses", but never never never annotate that as "unique visitors" without a big disclaimer.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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In reply to •Re: Website Statistics by merlyn
in thread Website Statistics by debiandude

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