Re: [Summary-Talk] visit duration

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/23/04 9:33 AM Ron Charles (clearsailing@mac.com) wrote:

>I need to prepare to explain or possibly defend the method I use to 
>analyze this website. So the question will be,  "Is the way the 
>analysis is performed by Summary, for duration specific information, 
>all things being equal, unique to Summary?"

All of the log analysis programs have small differences in their approach 
to measuring the different quantities, but we tend to all use very 
similar approaches. So, it is unlikely that any other program does 
*exactly* what Summary does, but several other programs do things which 
are very similar.

There is one other approach to measuring view duration, that isn't 
supported by Summary. It requires adding a substantial amount of 
Javascript code to each page, which then loads some "extra" small image 
files from the server each time the user takes an action. This approach 
is potentially more accurate for measuring view duration but it slows 
down your page load times and gets you only a small improvement in 
measurement accuracy.

Jason

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