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 [...]

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 [...]

Although many web analysts use a JavaScript-tagged solution, some of us still do log analysis on one or more sites. Even when JS data is used, sometimes you have a troubleshooting situation that requires you to go back to your logs. If you have access to a Unix environment, commands like grep, cut, and awk [...]