Just wondering what the Microsoft guys have been thinking when building the SharePoint statistics tools.
For an enterprise level system the statistics are really crappy but the most infuriating thing is the so called “unique visitors” statistics when looking other than daily numbers. I would guess they’ve never been in a math or statistics class as the assumption is that you can just add daily numbers and call those monthly unique users. It really doesn’t give much helpful information when system says you’ve got 74076 unique visitors monthly when there are 6000 users in whole system.
In my previous job our application had all kinds of statistics, some shared for all users and some custom per customer, so I did use some time to think of different kind of reports and what makes sense in them. Once accidentally created report where one formula resulted in this kind of results, and that did bring back all kinds of feedback. So we fixed and it was fine again. But this was considered a bug, not a feature as Microsoft seems to think.
I know there’s some third-party tools for getting proper statistics but one would think it would make sense for Microsoft also to do something about this…
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