[Tot]

Can any one tell if this occurs in IE7. As I don’t yet have it installed on my machine. This is disgusting that the guys at Microsoft thought that this would be a good idea!!!!

This new bug makes a fresh IE6 user (that is, one who didn't visit the bage before) generate much more server hits than one with any other browser would. Microsoft is not interested in the fact that users are wasting bandwidth, not in the fact that Web servers are wasting bandwidth; this is not their money. However Microsoft is interested in the fact that Web servers got 10 times more hits from Internet Explorer than they get from other browsers. This definitely raises IE in server logs. All log analysing tools I'm aware of make browser statistics based on number of hits. It is true that after the first request, my server responds with a 304 (it's like telling to browser IE6 “go away you fool, you already have that image”), but however, for the first request, the browser GET-s that same image over and over and the server really sends it (probably because there's a too short time between requests).

So I wish this wouldn't be true, but it seems a very plausible reason: IE needed this bug to keep showing up in the browser wars. At Dynarch.com, Internet Explorer usage has dropped from around 75% to around 61% in the last month! Cool! I'm glad to see that. However, it can't drop much more because each new IE visitor counts like 20 visitors with other browsers, so my stats will never reflect reality.

I am planning to work on a simple browser statistic tool based on a really simple idea: don't count hits; count browsers. Probably this is what needs to be done.

Please read this link

[LadynRed]

For one thing, anyone who has a clue about web analytics will NOT look solely at hits because they simply are NOT a good indication of the amount of real traffic to your site. If I have a page with 20 images on it and a css page, that is going to equate to at least 22 "hits" - one for each image, 1 for the html page and one for the css.

If you want to measure stats on your site, don't use hits, there are other things like visitors, unique visitors, page views, and a ton more that will be more accurate than adding up 'hits'.

[Tot]

The problem I'm having is that I have a repeated 'li' statement in my web app that hits the server the number of times that li is repeated even though it is using the same image bg. You would have thought that once it has cached that image it would use the same one. This is not the case in the first load, as above. Any other browser does not do this.

[pgo]

Interesting.