tedster - 11:44 pm on Jul 15, 2008 (gmt 0)

Right on - the situation today is a total mess.

In one case, I got so desperate to measure real human traffic that I threw out every IP address that had more than 50 page views in a day. Then I ran the analytics over the revised logs. Only at that point I did I start to see patterns that were more actionable, but I know my heavy handed tactics introduced their own distortions.