[fab] Re: Firefox splash page tracker

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 23:39 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > hey guys,
> >  The goal of this tracker is to determine how many folks we have
> > installing fedora, right?
> > 
> > If we can assume that it is likely that a user will be using
> > yum/pirut/puplet in a default install then we should be able to gather
> > the information on how many folks are using it (hence installing fedora)
> > from the mirrors.fedoraproject.org mirrorlist generating program. It'll
> > track hits against it and we can then mine those logs for the number of
> > users w/o obtaining much other information than 'they used
> > yum/pirut/puplet'.
> > 
> > It also requires nothing of us other than putting a log watcher on
> > fedoraproject.org.
> 
> 
> Does that track unique users or just hits?  Hits isn't that interesting. 
>   Unique visitors is.

it's just a url running under apache. It tracks what apache tracks
whenever someone hits a page. So, yes, definitely tracking unique
visitors.

-sv