Posted by Animesh K on 01/29/08 19:43

Michael Fesser wrote:
> .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's your choice then. I will still treat the ip-address, time of hit,
number of hit as a "counter vector" which is more sophisticated than
just 1, 2, 3, ...

>
>> 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.
>

hits per day, hits based on location, hits in the past 1 hour, trend of
hits, hits per month, hits to unavailable pages, .. all these are
(conditional) counters. Should I write a formula now?

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