How to find a unique visits from iis logs

[D_Choksi]

Hi all,

I am a bit new in webmaster world. i am trying to find unique visitors on my website from iis logs. How can i do so. on which fields do i need to look.

Thanks in advance.

regards
d choksi

[cgrantski]

The cookie field, if you have cookies. But first-time visitors will not have a cookie on the first hit. To match the first hit with the rest of the visit, use:

The c-ip field, preferably in combination with the User Agent field.

If you have no cookies, use the IP address (c-ip) and User Agent fields.

In all cases, check the time of the hits.

Excel is helpful when doing this.

[D_Choksi]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply will try according to you suggection. I will post a reply if I was successfull or not.

thanks
D Choksi

[aspdaddy]

Before you go too far, the bad news is you cant.

The best you can do expect out the box is to find unique sessions, as defind by a simple maximum session length heuristic. Depending on what analysis you are doing it may be good enough. It falls down big time when you have long sessions , sessions containing additional SERPS in the middle, users behind a proxy or users with cookies disabled.