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A visitor (also: user) is defined as someone who has performed at least one visit on the website or in the app. Depending on the analysis, visitors are counted as either unique or unique per time interval (e.g., day/week/month).

Short Facts

Example:

Two users start their visits on August 28:

  • Analysis: Visitor > Time > Months
    For the whole month, two visitors are shown.

  • Analysis: Visitor > Traffic
    In the day’s analysis, a user is counted for each day on which he was active. Therefore, the yellow user counts as a visitor for August 28th as well as for August 29th.

  • Analysis: Navigation > Pages > Pages
    The pages analysis yields the following results:

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Visitor identification

Depending on the tracking environment (web or app, the tracking method, and the user’s setup, user recognition might be based on cookies, fingerprinting, customer ID, or app-specific identifiers. Find more information on Mapp’s user recognition here: User Centric Tracking (1): An introduction