'Add to favourites'?

Sunchaser · #1 02-24-2008, 01:16 AM

Hi :)

I tried to look this up in the Cpanel documentation but didn't find it.

Does anyone understand how the stats for 'Add to favourites' works?

Quote:

Add to favorites (estimated) 102.5 %

One of my websites has the stat above - but in reality, probably less than a quarter of people to the site have actually added it to their favourites. (maybe none lol)

How do you interpret this stat?

thanks!

MADinMelbourne · #2 02-25-2008, 06:03 AM

Statistics are seperate to BVoda, right on the bottom of the stats page there's a link to Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) go to their forum to get statistics questions answered ... the link is in the 'AW Stats Projects/Developments section'. http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=43428

Sunchaser · #3 02-27-2008, 06:17 AM

Thanks lots for the link MADinMelbourne

I can see that people over there are confused too!

For anyone who's interested, here is a link to info re awstats -
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/..._glossary.html

and here is the info. re 'Add to favourites'

Quote:

Add To Favourites:
This value, available in the "miscellanous chart", reports an estimated indicator that can be used to have an idea of the number of times a visitor has added your web site into its favourite bookmarks.
The technical rules for that is the following formula:
Number of Add to Favourites = round((x+y) / r)
where
x = Number of hits made by IE browsers for "/anydir/favicon.ico", with a referer field not defined, and with no 404 error code
y = Number of hits made by IE browsers for "/favicon.ico", with a referer field not defined, with or without 404 error code
r = Ratio of hits made by IE browsers compared to hits made by all browsers (r <= 1)

As you can see in formula, only IE is used to count reliable "add", the "Add to favourites" for other browsers are estimated using ratio of other browsers usage compared to ratio of IE usage. The reason is that only IE do a hit on favicon.ico nearly ONLY when a user add the page to its favourites. The other browsers make often hits on this file also for other reasons so we can't count one "hit" as one "add" since it might be a hit for another reason.
AWStats differentiate also hits with error and not to avoid counting multiple hits made recursively in upper path when favicon.ico file is not found in deeper directory of path.
Note that this number is just an indicator that is in most case higher than true value. The reason is that even IE browser sometimes make hit on favicon without an "Add to favourites" action by a user.

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