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Hi,

does s9y offer an mechanism to exclude my own page views from the visitors count? (Some cookie that could be set).

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Hi!

No, the statistics plugin does not yet cover this exclusion.

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garvinhicking wrote:No, the statistics plugin does not yet cover this exclusion.
Ok, thank you.

I think that might be worth to be put in a later version, just a "count myself" field in plugin configuration.

What do you think?

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Hi!

I honestly think that if your own visits make such a difference to your blog, your statistics might not be that important after all? ;)

Google Analytics also does not exclude yourself, and it's IMHO fairly common that statistical programs include the whole mass of people and do not distinct a lot...?

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garvinhicking wrote:I honestly think that if your own visits make such a difference to your blog, your statistics might not be that important after all? ;)
Yes. At this moment I am doing many things with my blog, The book gives much ideas and I migrate my wiki to static pages in s9y.

I started the visitor count yesterday, I can show you the difference tomorrow.
garvinhicking wrote:Google Analytics also does not exclude yourself, and it's IMHO fairly common that statistical programs include the whole mass of people and do not distinct a lot...?
Google Analytics is no reason for me ...

At this moment I use pphlogger to count my data and it excludes own visits, but it is outdated.

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garvinhicking wrote:Google Analytics also does not exclude yourself...
Actually, it can be configured that way if you want. :wink:
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Visitors for yesterday.

pphlogger (excluding my visits): 126
serendipity: 308

That is three times more.

Dirk
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