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Originally posted by Greenguy
I didn't realize their new stats program was counting 2nd page hits, so I can't include them with the programs that are, as it'd fuck up the totals.
I'm working on a way to maybe do 2 stats runs, one for programs with 1st page clicks & one for those that have 2nd page clicks, even if I think counting 2nd page clicks makes no sense at all.
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Actually although it may make no sense at all (which I will try to clear up a bit below) ever since Extreme Paychecks was released we always counted second page hits, there was a time when hits were inflated by the fact that we use to count each console load as a hit as well, after we resolved that issue is when most people would have noticed a large difference (because it would have counted each surfer 3x instead of 1x).
In regards to it making no sense, maybe this will help.
On "Agressive Tours" with an extreme amount of links that will bring a surfer to the second page or directly to the join page, I personally made the decision to count second page traffic because of the Agressive links on a main tour page.
However there are certain tours that dont have such an agressive approach to linking, on those tours we count first page clicks.
I spoke yesterday with our software developer in regards to counting, 1st, 2nd and join page clicks as this is something we have been testing and working on, sadly there is no release date as of yet. I personally feel this will offer a more detailed stats look, but I will also say that with our agressive approach to linking from the first page I dont see it as a very big deal.
Im a firm believer in the fact that you cannot make everyone happy, all of the time, although that is our goal.