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Subject: Re: Hosts vs Visitors

Jason Linhart (24p/+0r) Posted: Wednesday 25 Apr 2001
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On 4/25/01 12:03 PM Iain Hunneybell (iain@ipmarketing.co.uk) wrote:

>I've seen other discussion of analog vs. WebTrends and I've been doing some >work to validate WT results with analog (I've even got close answers!). >However, looking at the 'Distinct Hosts Served' figures vs. the equivalent >WT 'Visits' and 'Unique Visitors' counts, I find analog gives a >significantly (60%+) higher count than WT does for 'Unique Visitors'.

I haven't tried WebTrends in awhile, but last I looked they were counting every one of the AOL proxy machines as a single Unique Visitor.

Jason

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