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Posted by Pete Gray on 02/24/06 22:32
In article <Pine.LNX.4.62.0602202243570.16281@ppepc62.ph.gla.ac.uk>,
flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk says...
> However, servers which insist on using such techniques are inhibiting
> cacheability, and thus ensuring a less responsive web, and thus are
> interfering in a negative way with the results which their users
> experience (*all* of their users - not only those discerning users who
> block these attempts to peek into their activities).
>
> This is, in effect, the Heisenberg law of web statistics - the harder
> you try to get accurate answers, the more you interfere with the way
> that the web works (recalling that HTTP was quite deliberately
> designed to be "stateless"), and the worse you are able to serve the
> requests of your users. And so, you end up getting more-accurate
> measurements of something that would be working much better if only
> you'd stop trying so hard to measure it.
>
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Audit Scotland didn't listen when I said as much in the consultation on
the new Statutory Performance Indicator for museums in Scotland:
<http://www.scottishmuseums.org.uk/areas_of_work/spi_intro.asp>
I believe they're also sending us the 'Magic Eye' mind-reader plugin so
we'll know what the purpose of a visit to the web site was. And what can
you say about an indicator that talks about 'hits' as a measure? Idiots.
--
Pete Gray
notes from a small bedroom
<http://www.redbadge.co.uk/notes>
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