Web page user statistics

[E. Holtsmark]

(This message is cross-posted.  Please excuse any duplication.)

Hello,

Your expertise is sought.  My question to you is about Web page user 
statistics.  I hope you find this topic fits the list.  

Do you keep track of who accesses your web page?  More specifically, 
How do you find out who the person is who is using your web page?  (an 
academic, a consumer, a professional, etc.)  Has anyone figured out how 
to determine exactly who a user is?  We've heard of using IP addresses or
on-page user surveys.  What other methods have you come across or used on
your web page?  Our purpose is to find out who is using the web page in 
order to better serve the user/client by providing information the 
user/client finds useful.  

My management project group wonders what models are currently in use 
that reveal what types of users are using a specific library web page.

Any experts out there?
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Eva Holtsmark
School of Library & Information Science, MA candidate (May 1996)
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA  52242
eva-holtsmark at uiowa.edu
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