elib,
There's some interesting info in the paper suggested by Simon, along the
lines of "Why web usage statistics are (worse than) meaningless". Some
of it I was aware of, and some I'd forgotten.
So - assuming one cannot realistically use usage logs to gauge
page views, does anyone have any suggestions for how to
persuade potential advertisers that its worth their while parting with
their money?
Roddy
> Roddy,
>
> Take a look at a paper written by Jeff Goldberg from
> Cranfield at:
>
> http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/docs/stats/
>
> Rgds
>
> Simon
>
> On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:40:47 -0000 Roddy MacLeod
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > elib,
> >
> > Like other services, I imagine, we at EEVL collect stats of hits to
> > our Web pages. We have accurate stats of *searches* made, due
> > to the fact that these are dynamically generated, but other stats
> > are, I believe, not accurate due to caching at various levels. Is
> > there any simple theory for the effects of caches on hits to home-
> > pages and other static pages?
> >
> >
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