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Logging unique visitors

Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 6:09 pm
by johans0n
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.

Re: Logging unique visitors

Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 10:49 pm
by califdon
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

Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 7:40 am
by johans0n
Thanks for your replay. Mostly I wanted to make it clear, that there isn`t an allaround good method how you could accomplish this.