In practice it's impossible to determine if different hits correspond to different users. One way of removing some incertainty is to check the computer IP accessing the site, but even then: 1) many users can 'hide' behind a single IP (local network behind a firewall); 2) one user is certainly responsible for many hits (several pages) in a site and can be a regular visitor. And, of course, what kbrkr writes is also true.

I think a more realistic idea of the site's popularity can be probably drawn from the orange bar, at the right side of the first pic (numbers not in the table, and a little smaller than the yellow visits bar).

It's amazing how easy it is to misinterpret 'statistic results', or in worst cases, how much manipulation can be done with this 'clean science' (not the present case, I'm sure about it!). A classic and very fun to read book about this topic is Darrell Huff's "How to Lie With Statistics".

This being said, I'm sure G70 will be a big 'hit'!

-- José.

[This message has been edited by Route 66 (edited 11-08-2004).]