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Why it’s dangerous to compare print figures to website stats

April 14th, 2009 · Comments

Although hardly newspaper/print apologists, both John Duncan and Martin Langeveld have posted interesting articles trying to compare the print/online split in newspaper readership in number terms. Duncan comes in with online having 17% of page impressions on Inksniffer using the Guardian as a case study,  while Langeveld posts that only 3% of newspaper reading happens [...]

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How to quantify online status….

July 31st, 2007 · Comments

Most people have slowly come to terms with the concept that ‘hits’ is meaningless as a value, due to the fact it refers to every item downloaded from a page, and can therefore easily be rigged.
So unique users and page impressions are the most common metrics. Unique Users refer to visits from an individual IP [...]

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