Re: visitor counter using cookie

From: John Dunlop (usenet+2004_at_john.dunlop.name)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:43:17 +0100

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.

> 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.

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

[ ... ]

> 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'.

[ ... ] 

-- 
Jock

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