How to Analyze Your Web Site Traffic (Part 2 of a 3 Part Series) Copyright 2002 by Herman Drost
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the the different terms used to describe web site traffic language.
Ways to Track Your Visitors
1. Counters – these are heavily used on web sites by newbies but appear unprofessional. It is very common to go to a page and see something like "You are visitor number 12345 to this page". These numbers cannot be trusted as the page designer has the ability to seed the base number or to alter the counter such that it adds more than 1 each time.
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