[LAU] important acknowledgments

[Marc-Olivier Barre]

On 5/22/07, Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico at vt.edu> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 09:26 -0400, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> > > Out of 7500 unique visitors who actually bothered to visit the site
> > > (this is a download repository so not much to see there), over 70%
> > > have actually bookmarked it (go figure).
> >
> > How do you know something like that? Do browsers send a special header
> > when you go to a site via bookmarks?
>
> This is pulled from stats.linuxaudio.org so take it with a boulder of salt.
> FWIW, my guess is that this data is drawn from the originating sites which
> is likely not very accurate (if there are none, then the assumption is that
> the site is bookmarked).

Either it is bookmarked or the site is accessed directly by typing in
the URL. Though I'm not sure that you always get the address of the
originating in the logs. 70% seems a bit too much...
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