IE6 refuses third party Cookies by default

won't Site Stats be distorted?

[Conard]

I have noticed that IE6 is now the #1 browser that accesses my site and I am wondering how this works with people that use off site stat packages, You know the ones where you stick some code on each page and go to another site to look at your stats.
The default setting in IE6 is to not accept cookies from third party sites.
If third party sites can't set that cookie are the stats skewed and how long will they stay in business if they can't track people from site to site and then sell that information?

[tedster]

You're right - it will be another source of distortion, although many remote tracking solutions don't use cookies, they use scripts and web bugs instead. A solution that uses cookies should also report on "cookies disabled" users.

As if site stats aren't crazy enough as it is!

[keyplyr]

>The default setting in IE6 is to not accept cookies from third party sites

First off, that statement is not accurate. At least the version of IE6 that I have was not defaulted to refuse anything, only verify that the user (me) wishes to permit the cookie.

What I did not particularily like was the forboding red warning icon in the browser's status bar when the website sends a cookie without valid P3P compliance. That was solved by creating the privacy document for my site. So maybe you can switch to a 3rd party tracking service that is in P3P compliance.