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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. wait a sec by hurfy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I forgot something.
    What about the other way?

    Do they see the 10 people on the office NAT as one IP ?!?

    That would skew it in the other direction and average things out wouldn't it? Now 10 is definately excessive.

  2. Re:NAT? 10 is too high! by RingDev · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No joke, we have 800 people going out over one IP from here. Kinda a pisser when I hit the 'slow down cowboy! you just posted' message. As much as the stats are inflated by dynamic IPs and multiple logon points, they are deflated by NAT and Proxies.

    -Rick

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    "Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
  3. Re:10 was arbitrary by op12 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My experience is that a lot of users use cookie killing software that removes cookies every time the browser is closed or just reject cookies altogether.

    My bet would be in the grand internetscape, this number of users is actually quite small and that most do not reject or remove cookies (at least not often).

    However, the point was a better gauge, not a perfect one. Requiring login would resolve most issues of users from different locations or even multiple users on the same computer, but few people are going to like a website they can't browse anonymously.

    I think it's just interesting data for site owners and nothing more. I wouldn't overanalyze some site touting 3000 unique visitors a day or something.