I use Power PHLogger to do my visitor tracking, it works by running a bit of java script on the client browser each time a visitor loads a page. This means that the majority of browsers gets counted and aggregators etc does not. This is ideal for me as it shows me actual users viewing the pages, their click streams etc. I also use Webalizer to do general stats.
PPHLogger counts unique visitors as those who are unique in 30 minute intervals, so far from examining my logs it seems some installs of Konqueror does not always load my bit of javascript, the rest are fine. The site owner can set a cookie that will skip his own browsing on the site, so my own hits never gets counted.
Today I received my 1,000th visitor using a real browser on this site since I started tracking it, 6th of September 2003, which was very shortly after it was launched in this format.
The lucky browser was from ntli.net and was searching google for “best freeware” that took him to my post about 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities
NOTE: This is a static archive of an old blog, no interactions like search or categories are current.
