Posted by Michael Fesser on 09/29/53 12:01

..oO(Animesh K)

>Steve wrote:
>>
>> 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, ...).

That's a lot more than just counting. I wouldn't call the server's
logfile a "counter".

>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.

1, 2, 3, 4 ... this is counting. And that's what a hit counter does,
nothing more. But GA _does_ a lot more than just counting.

Micha

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