Hello everyone,
The goal: Get daily unique visits on particular advertisements on my website.
In general i wanted to ask, I`ve looked around the web and people are suggesting various solutions. As i understand IP logging is not dependable e.g. there is one WAN IP address for 2 people behind a router, there are many utilities which help you to fake your IP, as well as most ISP`s use dynamic IP`s.
Another suggestion is to make a unique hash depending on IP address, OS, Browser etc., but I`m sure there are quite a few easy ways to send false user-agent headers etc. -> this method isn`t fool-proof aswell.
So i ask, is there even a method which would require a bit more knowledge than few tutorials over the web, to be bypassed?
Thanks in advance.
Logging unique visitors
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Re: Logging unique visitors
You should understand that nothing on the Internet is foolproof. Thinking that there is will lead to nothing but frustration. How important is it that your statistics are 100% accurate, vs. 97% accurate? You could use a cookie to see if a viewer has seen your ad before, but they could clear or block cookies, and even then, there could be several people in a household using the same computer. So there is no absolutely accurate method unless you require viewers to use a fingerprint scanner.
Re: Logging unique visitors
Thanks for your replay. Mostly I wanted to make it clear, that there isn`t an allaround good method how you could accomplish this.