Posted by Michael Fesser on 01/29/08 20:40

..oO(Animesh K)

>Michael Fesser wrote:
>
>> 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, ...

A logfile "counts" hits, that's it. The interpretation of the data is
left to the logfile analyzer.

>>> 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?

Most of these informations are not stored in logfiles, but extrapolated
from them, using different algorithms. Different analyzers will lead to
different results.

Micha

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