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I'm currently planning a site that (hopefully) will have many products from different customers. Management is currently pressing for billing of customers according to unique visitor counts per product. How would this be easiest to do? Site does not require visitors to log in.
I'm currently thinking the following setup:
For every visitor that enters the site, the site assigns a cookie. Everytime the visitor views a product, the product id and the cookie id are stored in a DB. If the cookie id is already assigned to a certain product id, script only updates the last_visit time.
I read from a previous post (from 2003) that the number of users allowing cookies is diminishing. Does anyone have "the latest numbers"? Would you consider this as a fair basis for billing?
Are there commercial tracking applications that would have this functionality?
For mums buying clothes, 99.7% have cookie support
For professionals on a finance site, only 96.6% have cookie support.
So... quite a big difference.
This is first party cookies, based on sites in December to date.
Our customers will vary quite a lot. Still, there probably are less "professional" computer users and more Average Joes with basic settings. Those percents give a nice guideline to present to the higher-ups.
I was worried that there might be a huge drop in cookie usage (IE7 defaulting cookies off, for example).
