cornwall - 10:48 am on Nov 21, 2002 (gmt 0)

Bumping this thread back up

I too have tried for years to get to the bottom of this one. I am giving a talk next week to a client group, and their web stats is bound to come up in the questions. Webtrends themselves do not seem to know the answer - or if they do, they are not telling :(

1. Can anyone definitively answer what happens with caching. For example www.mysite.com is looked at by the client of a major ISP like AOL or anyone else that uses caching. www.mysite.com is cached by the ISP, and spooned out to their next client using their cache.

Their client could have found www.mysite.com on Google, via a referal site, or any other way

My understanding is that there is no record of that visit on my log files at all.

Let us say that the user then clicks an inside page not on the cache. How does that show up on the logs. As a "no referrer" or as "www.mysite.com" or what? For the sake of this example assume that they found me on Google and got the site from their ISPs cache.

My understanding is that there would be no record of Google on my log files, but that "www.mysite.com" would show up as the referrer

2. If the last sentence is correct then does anyone have any ideas on roughly what percentage of visitors come from ISP caches

3. I am still baffled by the thread's conclusions. :)