Returning Human visitors during the last 30 days
The Returning visits of the visitors are analyzed, out from data in the log posts, as unique visitors visit sessions running count value for a 30 day period, but displayed for the time span to view.
In parallel are the accumulated returning visits tracked via a stored visit sessions count in cookie, and a corresponding analyze of returning visit sessions is made out from unique IP numbers. Data from cookie and IP No is as a reference.
| Method of defining returning visit sessions4 : (UVV: Unique Virtual Vistor fingerprint method.) |
UVV1 | IP1 | Cached2 (UVV) |
UVV+2 Cached |
UVV+2 Cached+ PCookie (TriSense) |
Persistent Cookie2 |
| Total unique visitors by methods: | 26 | 23 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 232 |
| Total visit sessions (by session cookies): | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 252 |
| Total number of viewed web pages: | 95 | 95 | 95 | 95 | 95 | 95 |
| Returning unique visitors by methods: | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Returning visit sessions by methods: | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 1 | |
| Pageviews made by returning visitors: | 22 | 18 | 22 | 22 | 2 | |
| Max returning visit sessions of an unique visitor: | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 (2)3 |
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| Mean value of visit sessions by returning visitors: | 2.0 | 2.0 | nan | 2.0 | 3 | 2 |
| Unique visitors making returning visit sessions: | 12% | 13% | 0% | 12% | 12% | 4% | Returning visit sessions of all sessions: | 24% | 24% | 0% | 24% | 24% | 4% |
| Pageviews made by returning visitors: | 23% | 19% | 0% | 23% | 23% | 2% |
| Percent of returning visitors has an active persistent cookie5: | 100% | - | NAN% | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Percent of returning visitors has a reseted persistent cookie5: | 0% | - | NAN% | 0% | 33% | 100% |
The UVV algorithm is the one containing the most true statistic values (and the one PhpTrackIT is based upon).
The IP algorithm often gives a to high value of sessions per visitors due to reused dynamic IP adresses.
The only use case of the IP No. within PhpTrackIT is for the benchmarking and algorithm validation here!
Based on anonymized IP-number log data.
2) Includes returning visitors who have made visits earlier than this time frame and now makes ≥1 visit(s) within it.
The Cookie algorithm often gives a to low value of sessions per visitor due to deleted cookies.
The Cached algorithm (new of PhpTrackIT) is the very most accurate method of returning visitors statistics.
3) Based on the returning visits count value stored in the cookie of the vistors, for unique visitors within the time span.
This count value is since the cookie was created and thus could contain data for longer period than the time span!
4) A visit session = a series of pageviews / actions of an unique visitor with no more than 3hr since last pageview.
5) This provides an indication of the problem of using cookies for tracking purpose (which PhpTrackIT does not use).
Some / many returning unique visitors have deleted (reseted) their cookies between visits, thus the cookie data.
Top 10 of TriSense returning unique visitor visit sessions of latest 30 days
Unique vistor - Returning visit sessionsUVV-01 - 0002.....
UVV-02 - 0002.....
UVV-03 - 0002.....
Top 10 of Persistent Cookie based returning unique visitor visit sessions1
Unique vistor - Returning visit sessionsUCV-01 - 0002.....
