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Originally posted by MadMax
My stats program tracks bookmarkers by hits to the favicon.ico file, so it's basically tracking surfers who add the bookmark to their favorites.
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are you certain it doesn't count firefox users as bookmarks? Firefox and some other new browsers load the favicon in the address bar for every visitor.
I don't really know how to be certain who is a bookmark and who isnt from my server log stats. And I am not certain there is any stats package that works from log files that can do it accurately. If they dont use the favicon method, I think they can only be counting the number of visitors without referers, which must include anon browsers and bot traffic, unless they keep updating some ginormous file cataloging all the bots and spiders out there or something... anyway I have my doubts about anything Ive seen so far actually giving an accurate bookmarker count.
When I compared the numbers a traffictrade script using cookies reported as bookmarks with what I had previously thought from my stats package on one domain.. I was pretty dissapointed .. and still am not sure what the accurate figure is as the nocookie user count was quite high too.
I figure that if any stats package really can do it accurately, then there must be a way for me to work it out manually too.... So if anyone reading can tell me a grep command I can run on my log files to accurately report bookmarkers I would love to know.. or even the logic of what I need to match in the logs so I can work it out myself would be great.
(maybe I should post this question in the tech forum)