Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 04/06/06 15:37

johnny wrote:
> hi Jerry,
>
> thanks for your reply, well of course a perfect solution does not
> exist, however don't you think that cookies are a more accurate way to
> track visitors?
> I mean with log files cached pages are not tracked and someone says
> that cached pages can even be more than 50% of all page views while
> with cookies you can have a better look at returning visitors .
> Cookies problem is only that some are deleted so you cannot analyze
> all the visitors of your site but by a qualitative point of view ,
> cookies data are more accurate.
> Of course a user can browse from different user agents, so the best way
> would be a log-in page and then a session but not all websites can
> require a registration.
>
> By the way , which software do you use for your log analysis ? and for
> tracking sales?
>
> TIA
>
> johnny
>

Cookie data isn't necessarily more accurate. I've found more and more users are
clearing cookies at the end of the session, for instance - maybe because of ad
tracking software.

My main log analyzer is awstats, although I use some others (like webalizer) for
some info. And most of my customers track sales web sales right along with the
rest of their sales in their accounting packages, etc.

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