Webstat-type trackers place a cookie on the visitor's computer. "Unique" visitors are those that do
not have the cookie in place, i.e., new (Except, of course, for those of us that don't allow
cookies.)

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Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com
Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info!

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"K Barrett" wrote in message news:PtAnc.15939$z06.2720797@attbi_s01...
actually on topic, since its about an orchid website, LOL!!

What does 'unique visitor' mean? Supposedly the AOS Pacific Central website
has been getting an average of 1469 'unique visitors' this year, and I'd
like to think all this traffic isn't just me doing my webmastering chores.

So is a unique visitor a different web address each time? And how do it
know? Email addresses?

K Barrett
BSP: http://www.aospacificcentral.org