Analytics from the Show Me State

Archive for July, 2009

One visit, two user agents

I found out recently that visitors using Internet Explorer 8 on a site that is not compatible with that browser, can exhibit multiple user agent strings during one visit. This is because of a compatibility view provided in IE8 that makes it look and act mostly (but not exactly) like IE7, for sites that don’t [...]


Perverts Make My Job Interesting

If you are a web analyst, and you have ever had to Google “zoo porn” as part of your job, you would understand why I loathe the idea of targeted advertising based on user searches. The terms I’ve searched as part of my job have gotten me on the net-nanny list of every employer I’ve [...]