unique users - Internet Marketing News and Blogs

Auditing sites based on unique users may be a step in the right direction but until figures are adjusted appropriately, online will lack the credibility to win serious brand spend.

The UK must adopt the same measurement standards as the US.

From January 2007, unique users will replace page impressions as ABC Electronic's mandatory measurement metric, according to a new ruling from JICWEBS.

Page impressions are easy to manipulate and don’t necessarily give a true idea of a site’s popularity. For example, figures can be manipulated by splitting content over several pages, forcing the visitor to read a number of pages per story. Some of the biggest online publishers do this.