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24 hours doesn't work. What you get is a number real close to what the different counters call "first time" not unique.
Let's say you went to a site every day 3 or 4 times. Maybe in the morning, around lunch, the afternoon, and at night.
With the 24 hour criteria you would NEVER be a "unique" you would always be a raw hit.
That's what I'm seeing when I try to go with 24 hour stats. I'm only seeing about a fourth of what all the different counters show as uniques.
So I'm wondering what sextracker or sexcounter or sexlist constitute as a "unique". I know a lot of programmers that "know other programmers" who have given me a lot of different numbers. As I said, logically I thought "24 hours" but as I said...it don't work that way. One programmer told me that "a friend of his" told him 30 minutes!!!! That seems a little extreme to me. But there has to be a decent time interval.
As I said in the beginning, I'm using a 12 hour count right now. From noon to midnite. But even that doesn't get it quite right.
Some of the counters set cookies but I'm just counting.
I looked around Sex Tracker (which ain't easy to navigate) and Sex Counter... but as far as I can tell there is nowhere on either site that explains how they are counting "uniques".
So that was why I thought a "unique" was counted as a surfer who has not been to your site for 24 hours...but as I pointed out...that don't work if you use the previous day and go from midnite to midnite you still end up with numbers that are WAY below what the major counters will tell you.
It's just confusing...
And what is the difference between "First Time" and "Unique"? On Sex Counter when you look at your stats you have "Raws", "Uniques", and "First Times".
I'm really wondering after putting my own counter up and comparing it to server stats and then seeing the numbers that sextracker and sexcounter and sexlist have shown me at...just how accurate any of those numbers really are and what they mean.
If a million "uniques" is really only 250,000 of what we logically think is a "unique" then that would be very interesting... cause that's sort of the picture that I'm getting from all this.
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