Cache distorting site statistics?

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I am getting increasing numbers of people, complaining that they are seeing old copies of my web pages. The worst cases seem to be AOL and NTL, who seem to cache pages for ages and users are unable to force access to the actual page.

Does this mean that site statistics will be underestimating the number of people reading my pages?

 

[grantwgrantw is verified member.]

If the old pages and new pages are still using the same counter or if you are using the counter on the server - webalyzer etc etc then the stats should be correct, even though users are seeing old pages their vivists should still be counted correctly.

I think you can add a no-cache meta tag in the header to stop browsers caching the page, dont know if that will help tho if the pages are cached at the ISPs end.

http://www.i18nguy.com/markup/metatags.html#pragma

Grant