Problems with blocked cookies....

I realise that if someone with blocked cookies visits my site, every page load will show as a unique visitor, but when I look at the visitor details I can clearly see that all of these visits came from the same IP address. I saw that in a previous post you replied that not many people are using blocked cookies. This certainly isn't what I've seen in the last few days!

My website went live 5 days ago, and I've been tracking it very closley. I am constantly seeing my counter shoot up by up by 20 or so unique visitors, and yet checking the visitor details show's only one! However, in most of these cases, their ip address remains constant. Why can't these visitors be tracked using their ip? I can understand if they would add one false count due to the lack of a cookie, but surely it could then just use their ip address for the next hour?

Without this, at the end of the day, I have absolutly no idea how many visitors I've had! I am certain that after only 5 days, my counter is wildly inaccurate!

Alex.

Hi Alex,

I understand your problem. I wish there was something I could for you but there is no other way we can provide these stats for a free service other than to use cookies. Any other way would be far too resource intensive. We are looking into better options for the advanced tracker and eCommerce tracker.

[mostlyquiet]

Hi,
The easiest way to deal with blocked cookies is to install a P3P Privacy policy. It gives IE the info it needs to allow cookies to be set.

I went through a lot of grief trying to sort blocked cookies out and it all came down to Internet explorers privacy settings.

You can get some info on P3P at W3C http://www.w3c.org/P3P (which did my head in!). I got my cookie settings sorted out with p3pwiz: http://www.p3pwiz.com - it takes a bit of time (about 5 minutes for me) to enter all the info but all my cookies are working now.

Hope that helps