Dne 16.4.2016 v 21:55 Xen napsal(a):
Vojtěch Zeisek schreef op 16-04-16 21:37:
Dne 16.4.2016 v 21:14 Richard Brown napsal(a):
On 16 April 2016 at 21:09, Vojtěch Zeisek <vojtech.zeisek@opensuse.org> wrote: That is basically why I am asking, because I've been taking a peek at the statistics for number of unique visitors to /searchPage per day and I'm trying to get a feel for how accurate it may be as an indicator of actual real-life userbase growth ;)
Very inaccurate, I'm afraid. How many people have some add-ons to block tracing (I install them to all people around me:-P)? How many have notebook and connect from plenty of networks? How many keep their older FF profiles? And how many use FF sync so that this option proliferates also into another instances? The only solution, I believe would be some unique ID related to package management. But You can imagine how many people would be angry about it and try to remove it. ;-) So, how are the statistics calculated? And what are the data? I mean, which browsers and their details (operating system at least)? Where is this the default settings?
Not sure, but you cannot block "tracing" of a web page visit if that statistic is simply maintained by the webserver?
Yes and no. You can (and I do and recommend to do) easily block external services like Google Analytics or Piwigo. Of course, You can't block statistics by webserver, but You can easily "lie" - browser doesn't have to (correctly) report its type, language, system, whatever. You can modify this information (and bias the statistics). -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.opensuse.org/ http://trapa.cz/cs