Greetings,

One of the AW stats reports is the estimated number of people that have added your site to favorites.

How do they determine that?

Boris

returning ip with content in the cache

thats my guess

Here's the snippet:


# Analyze: favicon (countedtraffic=>1)
#-------------------------------------
if ($pos_referer >= 0 && $field[$pos_referer] && $urlwithnoquery =~ /$regfavico/o) {
if (($field[$pos_code] != 404 || $urlwithnoquery !~ /\/.+\/favicon\.ico$/i) && ($field[$pos_agent] =~ /MSIE/)) {
# We don't count one hit if (not on root and error) and MSIE
# If error not on root, another hit will be made on root. If not MSIE, hit are made not only for "Adding".
$_misc_h{'AddToFavourites'}++; # Hit on favicon on root or without error, we count it
}
$countedtraffic=1; # favicon is the only case not counted anywhere
}


Looks like if the favicon.ico was hit and it's IE (and there wasn't a 404 on the favicon.ico) then this is a "possible add to favorite".

Chris

Yep, and it is only an 'estimate'