Unique Visitor vs Visitors Stats

Interested in comparing different industry traffic trends

[Edge]

Recently, I've worked hard to understand my traffic trends on my web space. I was hoping we could share our general industry traffic trends with each other.

I have a technical content site and the following are my general trends.

Visitors = 100%

Unique Visitors = 50% (50% of visitors)

Average page views per visitor = 4.3

[killroy]

Depends entirely on your definitions. Visitors on the web are an inexact art at best.

I supose you prefer to somethign your particular stat program tells you, and without sayign what program it is that info is meaning less.

In fact unless you've ever written your own stat software, you'll be hard pressed to appreciate the difficutlies of interepretting stats in a meaningfull way.

Currently, My definition of a visitor in my own stats package is:

Visits by same ip+user_agent with a 60 minute time out. i.e. all visits by the same ip/user_agent pair that are less then 60 minutesapart are taken together as one visitor.

I think tryign to seperate repeat vistors from unique visitors is even mroe inaccurate and impossable without client side tracking (i.e. coockies) which I do not allow on any of my sites.

SN