[Eril-l] unique vs total requests in counter 5

[Deborah Bezanson]

I agree Amy.  I've been looking at Unique.  I think it eliminates the
overlap we used to have when someone would enter a site on the HTML for an
article and then choose to download the PDF.

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 2:57 PM Amy Lynn Fry <afry at bgsu.edu> wrote:

> I’m trying to choose between unique and total requests in counter 5. Which
> is better?
>
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> I initially thought total to measure overall use, while unique would be
> good to see what scope of the resource is being used (like, how many ebooks
> in an ebook package). But then I realized today that it’s unique requests **per
> session**, so the unique count is only eliminating the counts of multiple
> things downloaded by the same user in the same session. Is that correct?
> Why should I care about eliminating that duplication?
>
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> Amy Fry
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