Enlightenment

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Published Friday, May 09, 2003 11:42 PM by RoyOsherove
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Friday, May 09, 2003 11:42 AM by Wes Haggard

# re: Enlightenment

Enlightening indeed, I can't believe I never really looked into this before. I have seen the little blue icon on plenty of websites but I have never really looked into it. But I got one now. I actually have a webservice that I was working on to collect stats but I think I will let Nedstat do the job instead. Yes one less thing I have todo to finish my website.

Thanks for the enlightenment.
Wes
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Friday, May 09, 2003 9:04 PM by Frans Bouma

# re: Enlightenment

Be aware of the fact that Nedstat isn't as secure as it should be. Sometimes the nedstat servers are pretty slow and then the image isn't loaded (the connection between the client and the nedstat server is slow, I mean) or way too late and you will not receive a hit. So I'd add 15% to the average number to get a correct measurement.

It's easy to setup your own counter if you have an online system yourself. Nedstat just checks when an image is loaded from their servers, checks the requester and increases the counter belonging to that requester. You can create such a counter within an hour. :)
Saturday, May 10, 2003 1:13 AM by Royo

# re: Enlightenment

Frans: Yes, I've noticed this myself, but am willing to live with this. Besides, there are some other factors that are not mentioned here. For example, The amount of people who download the direct RSS feed is unknown, so lets add 15% right there. Also, I use a redirecting service from Iseiralizable.com which is also not counted with NedStat.
I kind of like the fact that the stats that I see are known to be just a part of the real stats. It gives me a fuzzy feling knowing this is just part of a bigger crowd out there :)