![]() Over time, all visitors from the same network will be regarded as the same Unique Visitor.įor B2C sites serving mainly home-based visitors, most are assigned dynamic IP addresses. AWStats will see all users accessing a site from such networks as the same visitor. Even many (most ?) homes have a router-based network serving more than one computer. Even the smallest business will have an internal network with more than one computer. Most (all?) of Widgets Inc’s customers are businesses. Think ‘session’ here, say a unique IP accesses a page, and then requests three others without an hour between any of the requests, all of the ‘pages’ are included in the visit, therefore you should expect multiple pages per visit and multiple visits per unique visitor (assuming that some of the unique IPs are logged with more than an hour between requests).” “Visits:Number of visits made by all visitors. A practical problem, inherent in AWStats, appears from its own definition of a “visitor”: (See AWStats Documentation – Glossary) The distinction is far more than an academic one. It does not compare itself to Google Analytics but only to other web traffic analyzers ( AWStats Documentation – Log File analyzer comparison).It is a Web Server traffic analysis tool for Network administrators.AWStats is not a Web Analytics tool for use in marketing a promoting a company and its products via its web site.I am shocked that AWStats has even been compared with GA! AWStats itself does not make the comparison. The problem arises, in part, out of the problem that the client has a large contingent in Germany and the IT department has questioned whether GA is in compliance with the “Bundesdatenschutzgesetz” (German Data Protection Law)? We have a client whose IT department is stating that AWStats should be sufficient for their Web Analytics needs and questioning whether GA is really necessary ![]()
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