Re: Re: Caching of banners

Actually I consider it OK if sites like this collect $$s by ads. Therefore it's OK for me to see the banners. But don't they count the requests and click-thrus and not the actual downloads? As far as I understand a cached banner would still cause a request for that banner and therefore provide some more $$ (process-numbers?? no, really dollars ;-)
Just thinking....

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Stefan K

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Re: Re: Re: Caching of banners by turnstep (Parson) on Feb 13, 2001 at 02:48 UTC
If the image is cached, then when you call up another page (or refresh the same page) that has that image on it, your browser is going to say "Hrmmm...'AnnoyingAd.gif'? I've got that in my cache, so no need to go out on the network and get it!" So multiple pages = one image download. Pageviews and click-throughs are both counted. The latter is much more desired, but the reality is that it is still usually around 1% or less of the pageviews.	[reply]

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Re: Re: Re: Caching of banners
by turnstep (Parson) on Feb 13, 2001 at 02:48 UTC

If the image is cached, then when you call up another page (or refresh the same page) that has that image on it, your browser is going to say "Hrmmm...'AnnoyingAd.gif'? I've got that in my cache, so no need to go out on the network and get it!" So multiple pages = one image download.

Pageviews and click-throughs are both counted. The latter is much more desired, but the reality is that it is still usually around 1% or less of the pageviews.

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