unique visitors

[]|V|[agnus]

Does this refer to the first time an IP accesses the site ever, or per day, or does it depend on the tracking software?

[gsnedders]

How many IPs have been to your site.

[]|V|[agnus]

I think it must be unique IPs ever. Since I got my tracking program up and running again I've got 321 uniques showing, and 323 records in the IP table... that discrepancy is odd, though it's likely the 2 IPs, mine(work and home), that I'm ignoring for stats.

I was just curious if there was a standard approach to it, like it the term is generally held to refer to uniques ever, etc.

[rmedek]

Don't know... the stat software bundled wiith my hosting plan runs a report for a specific time period (say, the last six months) and then reports unique visitors (IPs) for those six months. Does your software just track from the day it was installed?

[]|V|[agnus]

Yes. I am using ShortStat, which kicks butt, by the way. I'm currently running the new 1.0 Beta Shaun's working on. My mutant Win/IIS server setup has provided some interesting development insights, as well as headaches. ;) I highly recommend anybody with a PHP/MySQL setup pay attention to http://shauninman.com/ for the full 1.0 release, which will hopefully be soon! (And no, I'm not being compensated to say that!)