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From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:

> How about a counter? (see www.linux.org)
> What is the current visitors count?

You can look at the stats pages: www.freebsd.org/stats.html, or
if you like inflated figures, www.freebsd.org/stats-img.html.

Web stats indicate server load, *not* users or visits.

(Incidentally, I'm about to embark on a little research project
(for the US govt) examining in detail the impact of browser/proxy
caching on web server logs to determine if *any* reliable
information about user behavior can be gleaned, or if what is
being gleaned is utter rubbish.)

-john