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Unique Visitors = 1/10th of Unique IPs?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that-might-be-pushing-it dept.

Max Fomitchev submitted a little blog entry where he proposes that the ratio of unique IPs to actual unique users is 10:1. This flies in the face of the numbers you usually see attached to these sorts of things. I'm not sure about the logic he uses to come up with these numbers either.

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  1. so... by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, he's saying my website has 1/10th of a visitor?

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  2. Neighbor's Wireless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I help keep this in balance by using my neighbor's wireless, that IP has a load of unique users.

  3. But... by xpird · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can he find a formula for the number of /. articles posted vs. the actual unique articles?

  4. Re:This is pointless by Churla · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes...

    But 37.5% of all stats presented by people are made up on the fly.

    Only about 2.31% of people know that by adding numbers after the decimal point the average person considers the number "more credible".

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  5. The key is not the Ratio, it's the Revelation by EvilMagnus · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's that this is a Marketing Person who has realised that IP != Unique User.

    That places him amongst a tiny minority of marketing people, even if his reasoning and ideas on methodology are just as batshit insane as the rest of his kin.

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  6. I've ALWAYS had the same IP (going on 15 years)! by sd.fhasldff · · Score: 4, Funny

    My IP has been 127.0.0.1 for a really long time now. Ever since I got my first internet connection, actually. That must be why it's such a "nice" number and not those horribly complicated ones other people always seem to have.