Re: visitor counter using cookie

From: Ian.H (ian_at_WINDOZEdigiserv.net)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:42:41 GMT

On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:43:17 +0100, John Dunlop wrote:

> Ian.H wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 19:24:23 +0100, John Dunlop wrote:
>>
>> > But don't equate server load with requests. Logfiles
>> > indicate not requests, but server load. It isn't
>> > practicable to count requests, nor useful to relay server
>> > load statistics to end users.
>>
>> You've confused me John..
>
> Sorry Ian.

No probs.. wasn't sure if I was reading things wrong or.... =)

>> not requests?
>
> Requests don't necessarily reach the origin server, so
> there's no feasible way to count them all. A request for a
> resource might be fulfilled by a cache, whilst the origin
> server is unaware of the transaction.

Ahh gotchya! Indeed and good point.

> Jeffrey P. Goldberg's page on the subject is worth reading:
> <http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/webstats/>.

Bookmarked for later reading =)

>
> [ ... ]
>
>> displaying stupid counters to visitors is an annoyance at best
>
> Agreed; and in Mr. Goldberg's words, 'there are basically
> two ways to put [counters] in your page: the wrong way and
> the very wrong way'.
>
> [ ... ]

lol! I love it.

Thanks for the clarification John =)

Regards,

  Ian 

-- 
Ian.H
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London, UK
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