Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

[David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>]

You could also look at NetTracker from Sane Solutions. We moved to
NetTracker Enterprise last year, and one feature it offers is the option of
tracking visitors via cookies.

    http://www.sane.com/

Online demo:

    http://www.sane.com/demo/NetTracker/web/index.html

No personal information is necessary to track users. No tracking scheme is
100% accurate though (if a person uses more than one browser on a computer,
or multiple computers, they will be recorded as multiple users, as well as
users that share computers appearing as a single user).

David

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DesignHammer Media Group, LLC : 919.544.0086 : http://www.designhammer.com


On 07/21/05 2:35 PM, "Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com> wrote:

> I tend to agree with the sentiments expressed here about collecting
> information from the users computer...not a "visitor friendly" thing to do.
> 
> However determining unique visitors is a whole other proposition...
> 
> Cookies should suffice for this purpose.
> 
> The more complicated part is using a system on the back end to create unique
> cookies and then track them over time...this would require a database of
> some type...
> 
> There are also plenty of services that do this for you for very little cost.
> Google "Track Unique Visitors" or "Website Tracking".
> 
> Many website log analysis and stats tools include the ability to use cookies
> for this purpose.  See WebTrends and similar.
> 
> 
> - Shea Tisdale
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:internetworkers-
>> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of marcia AT nc.rr.com
>> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 2:23 PM
>> To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
>> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] how can I id a user?
>> 
>> Craig,
>> 
>> That's the thing... I'm not sure what information I need, but I know what
>> I
>> want to accomplish.
>> 
>> I want to be able to know how many unique visitors a web page receives per
>> day. If a person access that page 10 times a day, it should count as 1
>> visitor. I know just the IP won't do the job, due to several different
>> reasons. But, what can I pair with an IP address that will create this
>> unique machine's identity?
>> 
>> Now, I understand that if a page a viewed 100 times, by 100 different
>> visitors, but from a public machine, it will count as only 1 visit, since
>> the IP address and every other hardware information will remain the same.
>> But this scenario would not be very realistic in this project's case. And
>> I
>> can always add a hit count to the page.
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
>> 
>> 
>> Original Message:
>> -----------------
>> From: Craig Duncan craigduncan AT entuend.com
>> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:07:49 -0400
>> To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
>> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] how can I id a user?
>> 
>> 
>> marcia AT nc.rr.com wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> I want to gather some web visitor information, but I'd like to do so
>> behind
>>> the scenes.
>>> 
>>> To do that, I can use either coldFusion, javaScript, or flash
>> actionScript,
>>> or a combination of all.  I know just the IP address won't be enough, so
>>> what else can I get from the user without having to use cookies?
>>> 
>>> Any way to get something from the BIOS, or registry like info, that would
>>> work cross-platform?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> Marcia
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>> Knowing what type information you are looking for would help define how
>> to go about getting it. Just saying I want to grab data from someone
>> computer is not very helpful. Care to elaborate?
>> 
>> Craig
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