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  1. October 25th, 2006, 11:02 AM #3
    phishphreek
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    I also wouldn't trust any third party. Why not just analyze your own logs and extract that info? Check out the Referer http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/HTRQ_Headers.html#z14

    I've had that site blocked in noscript for a long time now. I see a lot sites that use it. So, does that mean that every site I visit that uses that as tracking now has skewed stats? It would be interesting to compare a third party tracking vs local tracking. The third party solution also relies on the client being able to get to the tracking server and exectuing the script. It could easily suffer dns resolution problems, routing problems, content filtering (proxy), firewall, script blocking, etc.

    If it is hosted locally, the data is already there and it just has to be extracted from the logs.
    I've been using AWStats for this on my intranets. I don't have any public webpages...

    http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
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