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The
web page thestraights.com was initially published on the
Internet in the last week of November, 2000 at server
location fornits.com/straight.
On December 8, 2000 a page counter was set.
The virtual domain thestraights.com was created
on 2-22-02. On
that date the total page hits counter for
thestraights.com was set to the counter used on
fornits.com/straight.
On 04-02-02 it was discovered that several people
were still visiting fornits.com/straight instead of the
new version at thestraights.com.
Upon further investigation it was learned that
due to a program routing error,
many people were being routed to a /straight
directory. For
example people visiting the book A Clock Work Straight
might branch there by one of four ways:
It
turns out that each page has its own unique page hit
counter. Because
of these problems
it was necessary to make adjustments to assure that
future users would be routed to only one location, and
also adjust the page hits counters to reflect the true
page hits. Thus
between April 2 and April 4, 2002, the following
adjustments were made:
The table below shows page directory hits for accumulative page hits (the hit counters you actually see on a web page) since Dec 8, 2000. It also shows the true directory hits for the months stated. The true directory hits wil always be equal to or greater than the page counter hits displayed on the page when you visit it. That is because if you link to a directory the page counter is incremented by one. But if you k=link form there to another page and then hit the back button, the page directory hit is incremented by one, but the counter which is displayed on the page is not incremented. Assumption.
In the table below look at the statistics for the
directory thestraights.com/straight.
The display counter for that page on 04-03 was
96. That
means that if you went to
that page at that time that is the counter that
would be displayed on the page.
But server data shows that between 02-22-02 and
04-03-02 that directory had 25+218+7 = 250 actual
directory visits. Or,
for that particular directory, only
96/250 = 38.4%
of all directory visits were true page links.
We will arbitrarily and capriciously assume in
all other cases that 38.4% of total server directory
visits are actually page hits to be reflected in the
page counter when you visit a page.
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