Posted by Mark Parnell on 10/05/70 11:39

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, Familyman
<ensings@astutechoices.com> declared in alt.html:

> Hi,

G'day.

> I need to know just two statistics each day.

Define "need".

> 1. New visitors. 2. Returning Vistors to my site.
> I found www.ritecounter.com

A third party stats package is less reliable than the logs stored by
your server. Not sure about that one in particular, but generally they
work using either cookies or Javascript (or both) - both of which can be
blocked by the end user.

> Can you recommend a better way for me to find my two stats?

Put simply, you can't.
http://karlcore.com/articles/article.php?id=26

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Mark Parnell

Now implementing http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

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