Re: Web site cookie overload?

[Nick Seward <nseward () cscn com>]

Alexander Klimov wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Nick wrote:
>  
>
> > Most sites will not use cookies as a way of counting the number of
> > visitors since they are unreliable just like you mentioned. Instead
> > they would track the number of unique ip addresses that access their
> > website. This would then be the total number of unique visitors to
> > their site which is much more reliable then a cookie count.
> >    
>
> As was said many times before, unique IPs are by no means indicate
> unique users: whole company could be behind a single proxy (1 IP for
> many users) and due to dynamic IPs implemented by most ISPs a single
> user could have multiple IPs (1 user many IP). If a website wants to
> make any real counting of its users it can implement some kind of sign
> on service (with UID and password) so that users be interested in
> storing cookies in order to avoid relogins.
>
>  
What if a website doesn't use logins to track visitors? Granted unique 
IP's are not always unique as you have mentioned. What would be the best 
way to track these visitors?

Nick