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Article sites a flaw in Sitemeter Stats: 101 people consistently revisiting the page in a circuit could inflate the numbers dramatically.

"SiteMeter only accounts for the last 100 visitors individually. On a site like Daily Kos, the 100th most recent visitor could have been 15 seconds ago. If you are the 101st most recent visitor and you click on a new page, you are counted as a new unique visitor in SiteMeter’s all important count. On a normal site, this wouldn’t matter, since it’s highly unlikely you’ll stick around long enough to have 100 others show up after you. On a site with hundreds of thousands of page views a day, it’s extremely likely you will."

7 posted on 10/07/2007 3:31:11 PM PDT by barnicus
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so clicks can be manipulated.

How to manipulate them beyond the absurd to show the fraud?


13 posted on 10/07/2007 3:42:10 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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