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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (45220)4/7/2001 1:30:14 PM
From: Shoibal Datta  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 70976
 
-OT- Unique Visitors
Brian, I believe unique visitors are logged solely on the basis of cookies. Another metric that bears analysis is unique sessions. Depending on how you set up your logging software a session is said to expire after 30 minutes of inactivity. Some websites fudge the numbers by reporting unique sessions as unique visitors, which can be misleading.