somebody who visits a Web site more than once within a specified period of time. Tracking software that monitors site traffic can distinguish between visitors who only visit the site once and unique visitors who return to the site. Unique visitor statistics are considered to be the most accurate measurement of a Web site's popularity because they reflect the number of people who want to be there rather than those who have arrived there by accident. Furthermore, unlike hits (which are measured by the number of files that are requested from a site) unique visitors are measured according to their unique IP addresses. This means that no matter how many times they visit the site, they are only counted once.
Ask most web designers what is more important: a unique visitor or a repeat visitor? Most will choose, the former. Let's analyze a unique visitor. They could just be browsing, like shoppers in a mall, or they could be a potential customer. Now, don't get it wrong. Unique visitors might...
CheckOut.com and its successful network of entertainment destinations (CheckOutMusic.com, CheckOutMovies.com and CheckOutGames.com) were entertainment category leaders in unique pages per visitor in Deember 1999, according to Media Metrix. CheckOut.com's entertainment sites averaged 8.4 unique pages per visitor in a day, surpassing well-known sites including MTV.com, E! Online, Fox.com, MP3.com and...
Lee Ielpi opens the door across the street from where the World Trade Center towers once stood and explains to a visitor that the Tribute WTC Visitor Center is not yet open to the public. Then he lets the visitor inside anyway. "A woman comes to the door crying, saying...
STAMFORD, Conn. -- Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) today announced a collaboration with LobbyGuard[R] Solutions, LLC to offer a self-service visitor management solution designed to help schools, universities, corporations and other public and private institutions maintain control and effectively manage visitor activity.
The Orange County Connection, a visitor shuttle service operated by Anaheim-based Pacific Coast Sightseeing/Gray Line that launched in September to link OC's popular visitor sites, is averaging about 100 riders per day, a number that is expected to grow as more visitors become aware of the shuttle's existence.
To evaluate the effect of visitor restrictions and to guide future visitation policies, the Hospital conducted a preliminary survey of patients, next of kin, staff, physicians and volunteers. In the absence of evidence upon which to base future visitor policy development, there is a need for objective input from healthcare...
The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's NASA largest and best-attended visitor facility. Johnson Controls and Delaware North Parks Services make up the chosen team for the Visitor Complex because NASA believed they could respond quickly and efficiently. The keys to success are quality,...
In each issue, Foliomag.com tracks the most popular magazine Web sites, including Internet pure-plays and Web partnerships with other media, citing the most recent unique visitor data, and calculates the percent changes vs. one year ago.Web Site ...
ABSTRACT A paleontological field discovery known as the Big Pig Dig has developed into a significant visitor education and research site. Between 5,000 and 10,000 visitors stop by the site each summer. The site contains many visitor facilities, including a site shelter, wayside exhibit, site bulletin, demonstration casts and a...
LOS ANGELES -- Shopzilla, Inc., a leading shopping search company, announced 70% growth in visitor traffic in November compared to the same month last year, which is more than five times the comparison shopping industry's 13.4% growth rate for November. According to the latest November data from comScore, Shopzilla had...
Regardless of how irritating a drop-in visitor may become, there is never a reason to be abusive to him/her. There are too many professional ways to handle your visitors, ways that do not mis-treat the visitor, and do not demean you. The same need for professionalism and courtesy apply if...
3 THE VISITOR (Use with Activities 17 and 62)It came into the house through the open door.It tiptoed all around, then rested on the floor.It peeked in the window to see who was there.It entered and floated brilliantly. right through the air.If skies appear all clear and bright, then out...
Search engine optimisation, because it focuses on making sites more appropriate to visitors' search queries, more content-rich and better-connected to other relevant sites can make a site more visitor friendly, as a natural by product of the process. In addition, a site map, breadcrumbs and descriptive text links (rather than...
LAS VEGAS -- Watchit Media, Inc. (OTCBB: CGZT) today announced the launch of Watchit Visitor Television Network WVTN, a unique television channel to the gaming and hospitality market. The Company has initiated WVTN in the Las Vegas hospitality market. Like Watchit's other television programming for Private Video NetworksTM, WVTN will...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-1 February 2002-IDC examines future of visitor-based network services market C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Market intelligence and advisory firm IDC has predicted that the revenue from visitor-based network services in Western Europe will reach USD1.3bn in 2006, up from USD15m in 2001. IDC claims that...
"UNIQUE" IS a word that gets pedants very excited. It must not be qualified, you see. You must never say, or write, that something is "almost unique" or "nearly unique". Nor must you hype "unique" with such adjectives as "quite" or "utterly", those being quite superfluous and mannered. Something is...
CAMBRIDGE, England -- A British museum visitor who tripped on his shoelace and shattered three 300-year-old Chinese vases called it a "regrettable accident" Monday, adding that he has been indefinitely banned from returning to the museum. The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge said last week that a visitor broke...
On U.S. Route 42, a little more than a mile from the quaint, well-preserved and renovated Medina town square, a visitor might expect to see the rolling hills of a bucolic countryside. That visitor might be shocked. Instead of the traditional Medina CoOn U.S. Route 42,...
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