How the hell can server stat generators even estimate how many people are 
adding your site to their favorites/bookmarks?

To ask in a different manner;

Is this statistic something that proficient webmasters (shut up krusty) 
consider a worthwhile statistic to show their clients?

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On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:49:26 GMT, "dE|_"  wrote:

>How the hell can server stat generators even estimate how many people are 
>adding your site to their favorites/bookmarks?
Count the downloads of favicon.ico

>To ask in a different manner;
>
>Is this statistic something that proficient webmasters (shut up krusty) 
>consider a worthwhile statistic to show their clients?

All web stats are useful depending upon you value for useful.

Richard
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In message <aTdbj.23788$yZ4.5757@newsfe4-gui.ntli.net>, dE|_ 
 writes
>How the hell can server stat generators even estimate how many people are
>adding your site to their favorites/bookmarks?

If a user visits a page from their bookmarks (or by directly entering 
the URL in the browser, or by clicking on a link in a text email and 
perhaps some other ways) their browser will not include a referrer 
header (used to indicate which page the user clicked a link on to get to 
this page). Perhaps said stat generators are lumping all requests which 
have no referrer together and saying they are from bookmarks...

>To ask in a different manner;
>
>Is this statistic something that proficient webmasters (shut up krusty)
>consider a worthwhile statistic to show their clients?

I wouldn't encourage a client to take note of it unless they understand 
where it comes from and what it may or may not mean.
-- 
Dominic Sexton

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:44:27 +0000, Richard Cole
<ispcrco@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:

>On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:49:26 GMT, "dE|_"  wrote:
>
>>How the hell can server stat generators even estimate how many people are 
>>adding your site to their favorites/bookmarks?
>Count the downloads of favicon.ico

doesn't work if the line
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
is in the web pages.


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<dE|_>
<Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:49:26 GMT>
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> proficient webmasters (shut up krusty)
> 

So much for the season of good will and good cheer to all men .

 
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On 22/12/07 9:14 pm, in article
MPG.21d78e7ffa75513598b0d0@news.newsreader.com, "Krustov" 
wrote:

> <uk.net.web.authoring>
> <dE|_>
> <Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:49:26 GMT>
> <aTdbj.23788$yZ4.5757@newsfe4-gui.ntli.net>
> 
>> proficient webmasters (shut up krusty)
>> 
> 
> So much for the season of good will and good cheer to all men .
                                                            ^^^
There's your answer

Merry Christmas everyone... Even Krusty!

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Andy Jacobs
http://www.redcatmedia.co.uk

"Paul Herber" wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:49:26 GMT, "dE|_"  wrote:
>>
>>>How the hell can server stat generators even estimate how many people are
>>>adding your site to their favorites/bookmarks?
>>Count the downloads of favicon.ico
>
> doesn't work if the line
> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
> is in the web pages.

Well I'm getting a stat for it and I use that line... so it just makes it 
incorrect then.
The stats do state "estimated".

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