Posted by Animesh K on 09/29/76 12:01

Steve wrote:
> "axlq" <axlq@spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:fnlakb$leh$1@blue.rahul.net...
>> In article <DqydnWzRTKd3xQTanZ2dnUVZ_iydnZ2d@comcast.com>,
>> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>>> Google analytics is not a counter.
>> Wrong. Did you perhaps mis-type the above sentence? You should
>> know better.
>>
>> It's a sophisticated and flexible counter that slices and dices
>> visits to your web site a number of ways. But in the end, all it's
>> doing is... counting.
>
> wrong!!! it's an *analysis package* where ONE of it's features is counting.
> counting is NOT the mechanism that make all of it work...nor is counting
> even a *primary* feature thereof.
>
>

Analysis is only done after "counting" the data as an array made of
(ip-address, time of hit, country of hit, redirecting page
,page-which-got-hit, ...).

It would be better if you (both) sit and think what a (general) counter
would mean before telling us what google analytics is, or what it is not.

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