Re: ONLINE-ADS>> Measuring sessions

Andreas Werner (werner_at_pobox.com)
Sat, 22 Feb 97 15:07:00 +0100

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Steve Podradchik (stevep_at_marketwave.com) wrote:

>As part of their audit they attempt to establish the number of "visits"
>to a site by using a 30 minute session interval between page
>requests emanating from any unique host.
>
>It's an attempt to aggregate the number of visitors to any Web site,
>but they carefully don't call it that.
>
>One of the sites I work with garnered 300 000 page requests last
>month, and the DeLoittes session measurement translated that into 100
>000 "visits".

Your question is how to measure a visit. The solution is not a time
interval. The solution is the counting of log-file entries with a referer
outside the side. So you must not find the end of a session. All you have
to do is to count all first PageViews of all Visits. With the referer it
is nearly possible.

andreas werner

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