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Originally Posted by TheSenator
What is the actual number of uniques when excluding the traffic trade skim?
For instance when a TGP claims they have over 250,000 uniques.... WHAT DO THEY REALLY HAVE?
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Too many variables to say for sure as there's a lot of "tricks" one can do to help bump up that unique number such as; place your counter code right at the top; open galleries in the same window so some "click backs" get counted again; include known crawlers in the number (that's typically the case as few programs filter those out); buy lots of no cookie traffic; use a page counter on all pages of your site (as opposed to a site counter); etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
"Assuming" they're not doing much of anything to inflate it, then it's probably 60%-90% of that number.
If you were going to buy a site, you'd want to see all the stat. Counters, trade scripts, server logs etc. and then analyze where all the traffic if coming from.