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Message # 43067.1.1.1.1 Subject: Re:The Flag Counter Date: Sat 06/02/10 21:40:57 GMT Name: leonmoomin Email: leonmoomin@ntlworld.com |
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I think you have to wait a little while with the system on here, as it's probably counting the actual IPs clicking on this page, so give it a little while to gather more detailed stats, it has only been here a day or two.
Not sure how the Alexa system works, as it isn't embeded in the page?
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In reply to Message (43067.1.1.1) Re:The Flag Counter
By MK - wamtec@comcast.net Sat 06/02/10 21:35:04 GMT Interesting....alexa reports the traffic by country to be quite different to Nigel's stats.....click on the "audience" tab on the Alexa stats for this site....and you will see that Russian traffic is a factor according to Alexa...but Russia does not barely register on Nigel's flag counter system....and while we all agree that the USA, Germany and UK are the 3 biggest centers for wetlook traffic...Alexa says that German traffic is larger than American traffic....and Nigel's stats say that Canadian traffic is a major factor, but Canada does not even register with the Alexa system.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/minxmovies.com#trafficstats
None of these systems are very accurate. I think that Alexa is overstating Germany a bit, and Nigel's system is overstating Canada and understating the Russian wetlook traffic.
MK |
In reply to Message (43067.1.1) Re:The Flag Counter
By Malvineous - mrnemesis@ntlworld.com Sat 06/02/10 19:43:19 GMT As far as I can tell, it really does just look at IP addresses. It's a public service site and doesn't hook into Nigel's custom forum system. |
In reply to Message (43067.1) Re:The Flag Counter
By MK - wamtec@comcast.net Sat 06/02/10 17:56:35 GMT Bear in mind that the flag counter is not actually counting the location of where people are actually located or where they are accessing from....it is just counting the "nationality" that the visitor declares as his nationality or citizenship. A location counter would be based on the ip address of the computer, this is a flag counter, and my flag is British cos that is my country of birth and citizenship, but I live in Florida, USA...so I access from he USA, not the UK. Likewise, there are many Turkish and Indian people living in the UK, so they may report their nationality as one thing, but their access to the internet may be from another country, so the flag counter is not really giving you accurate infos about whether this site is blocked in certain countries or not...it is merely a fun thing that counts flags....and only a system based on the users computer ip address can tell you the info you need to know about where they are accessing from. |
In reply to Message (43067) The Flag Counter
By Phoenix - Sat 06/02/10 16:52:36 GMT A nice touch :). Working for a few hours and we can see that the forum is not blocked in Turkey or Malaysia - there was a discussion about blocking in Muslim countries earlier. Let's see what else it tells us in the days to come :) |
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