Posted by Steve on 09/29/29 12:01

"Animesh K" <animesh1978@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:fnlvkq$cj6$2@agate.berkeley.edu...
> Steve wrote:
>> "axlq" <axlq@spamcop.net> wrote in message
>> news:fnlakb$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.

good lord, you should learn what a counter is. tracking is NOT counting. a
visit and a page hit are two different things. counting fails if that's all
there is to your 'analysis' package. serve yourself a dose of your own
advice...then, you'll know what you're talking about.

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