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How do you distinguish two users with the same date stamp, to know they are two diff visitors? User A: last-modified: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT Use
by Terretta 4y ago
How do you distinguish two users with the same date stamp, to know they are two diff visitors?
User A: last-modified: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT
User A: last-modified: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:01 GMT
User B: last-modified: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT
User B: last-modified: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:01 GMT
Next you see:
User ?: last-modified: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:02 GMT
Which user is it?
And have you had 2 count of visits, or 3 count? How do you know?
Finally, these aren't really counting visitors, but views, of this URL, by this browser, right?
There's a conventional taxonomy of terms for web stats, something like:
- users (as in MAU)
- visitors or uniques (typically daily uniques)
- visits or sessions (multiple views from one visitor in a cluster)
- views or pageviews (.html pages)
- hits or requests (every object gotten from server: .html, .js, .jpg, etc.)
Looks like your GIST is causing a remote user agent to store a count of its own views.
// I haven't tried it, just a quick skim of the blog and the gist, raising this question. I'm probably missing something.
- jrmg 4y agoHow I'm interpreting their explanations is that they don't (can't) tell which user it is. They just know you've had two two-time visitors, and one one-time visitor.