Queries on the following website stats...
Can anyone reply with the following....
1]. how far "back" can you go when you ask for HTTPServer stats to find the referring page -- I believe that you can only go back one level, right?
2]. when visiting any website, can the various pages that you visit be tracked in any OTHER method, than using your IP? that is, when you land on home, your IP can be written to a dbase say, and then each subsequent page also has the same tracking code on it...but can a website owner use IPs only?
3]. once you leave a website, is there a way for a website owner to see where you are going to? that is if i'm on adobe.com and suddenly want to do a search and then type in google.com -- can the adobe.com owners learn what page it is I went to?
4]. lastly, any idea on what % of website users are using proxies to link to the web and not their own IP? ie, AOL uses proxies I believe, so does that mean that millions of AOL members all have the same IP?
Thanks....
Jim
Busy posted this at 21:29 — 20th July 2004.
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Your web logs catches most stuff including changing proxy IP range.
You can tell where there entered, where they went and where they left from (last past they viewed) but generally you can't tell where they came from (apart from link or bookmark) or where they are going to (unless via a seperate link)
Proxies are very common, AOL for example have different IP for viewing images and pages and changes quite often. I'm on the other side of the world to AOL and I am also on a proxy that changes per session.
JVRudnick posted this at 14:07 — 21st July 2004.
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Hmm...okay Busy, thanks. Is there a place online that might list the various AOL proxies being used?
Jim
Busy posted this at 22:27 — 21st July 2004.
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not off hand, might try here (google search results)
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