[Sigia-l] Site Counters - good or bad - THANKS

[Jan Knight]

Hi:
Thanks to all who responded on and off list to my query on site 
counters. I have a wealth of information and opinions - thank you very much.
If anyone would like me to post a summary I'll be glad to. Let me know 
and again, thank you to all.

Jan

Dr. Marios Pittas wrote:

>Amusingly enough Peter Comber's (of the BBC) chapter (4) in:
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>>"Practical Web Traffic Analysis" By Fletcher, Poon, Pearce, and Comber..
>>Shortfalls, tools, real life cases, all provide good informed reading..
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>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
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>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1493152.stm
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>After which of course each would produce their own definitions as to what
>spying is, what information is freely available etc..
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>>It is of course I'm not saying you should use them but it would be useful
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>to know
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>>how and why you need to make this case and in what context...?
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>I could not agree more with this unless you are in exploration mode...
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>Marios
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