[LINK] Olympic website stats

[Danny Yee]

I asked:
> > Why do journalists persist in reporting "hits"?  "Hits" is a totally
 
Ash Nallawalla wrote:
> Because it was in the press release.
 
That's not an excuse.  I know journalists often print press releases
without even looking at them, but that's not good practice.

> > (Presumably the "8.7 million"
> > is calculated from some combination of cookies/unique hosts.)
 
> Most companies run commercial stats analysers that churn out these units of
> measure.  The real figure could be higher, given the use of proxy servers.
> IOW, almost any number will do as they are all wrong.
 
Well yeah, but they're interesting in a ball-park sort of way.

Danny.