Perl Visit Calculation

[mnorton]

Does anyone know of/Has anyone written a script perl which calculates visits accurately , or know of the algorithims for calculating visits ?

Thanks

Mike :)

[mark_roach]

Mike

Not quite sure I fully understand the question, but determining the number of "visits" is one of those grey areas in tracking. Most packages define a visit as a hit from a unique IP within a given time frame. It would be possible to write your own tracking mechanism involving cookies, however not all surfers accept cookies so this would not necessarily be any more accurate.