[Sigia-l] Site Counters - good or bad

[Dr. Marios Pittas]

Amusingly enough Peter Comber's (of the BBC) chapter (4) in:

> "Practical Web Traffic Analysis" By Fletcher, Poon, Pearce, and Comber..
> Shortfalls, tools, real life cases, all provide good informed reading..

is using the BBC as a test case for traffic analysis to:
1. find out daily most popular articles
2. audited traffic results for external and internal audit reports
3. detailed visitor analysis

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1493152.stm

After which of course each would produce their own definitions as to what
spying is, what information is freely available etc..

> It is of course I'm not saying you should use them but it would be useful
to know
> how and why you need to make this case and in what context...?

I could not agree more with this unless you are in exploration mode...

Marios

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