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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Summary-Talk] average view time
Just as a general comment about view times ... I've always wished they could be more accurate and reliable, but it's just one of those things you can't do too much about given the rather limited contents of a visitor access-log file. Our site gets visited by many proxy servers and others who download the entire site rather than view actual pages (such as folks trying to keep an updated copy of our web site on their local computer). In some cases, the proxies get wacky and request pages multiple times for no apparent reason. I've also noticed in real-life that many users double-click links instead of just clicking them, and this is reflected as duplicate requests in web logs. It seems to me that all these factors together can basically invalidate the view-time statistics, when you consider that such non-human visits probably account for 15-40% of our page views. If only there were some magic way to tell Summary which pages were actually viewed and which were merely being downloaded, so that it could base its calculations only the log entries for pages that were viewed by an actual person! ===================================================================== Kevin Cook e: kcook@lnxw.com Sr. Graphic Designer/Webmaster v: 408-979-4401 LynuxWorks, Inc. f: 408-979-3920 855 Embedded Way www.lynuxworks.com San Jose, CA 95138-1018 (please note that the name of our street has changed; we have not moved) Open source and true real-time embedded solutions for the post PC-era ===================================================================== Jason Linhart said: > Tracking this > level of detail for every page in a site is complex, and it seemed to me > that few people would be interested in it, or interested enough in it to > justify the large multiple on the memory usage that calculating it would > entail. ------------- Go to <http://summary.net/list.html> to update subscription info.
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