Counting Save As Favourites

[getvisible]

Does anyone know how accurate this method is to see how many people save your site as a favourite?

1) Add a FavIcon.ico to your site (http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/)
2) Let a day go by
3) Open up your logs
4) Look at the requests for the favicon
5) If the server code is 200 then it's someone adding your site as a favourite
or
If the server code is 302 then its a returning user
or
If the server code is 404 you didn't do 1) properly?

Is there a more scientific way of doing it?

Lee

[max99]

im not sure, would also be interested in knowing, I currently look at Awstats, which tells you but i doubt they are accurate

[essdeekay]

Aren't the AWStats figures estimates?

Simon

[andy_jacko]

I think firefox displays the fav.ico in the address bar when someone visits your site so this may dilute the figures quite a lot.

andy

[thomashine]

The new IE7 displays the favicon in the address bar and tabs regardless of whether the user has added the site to their favourites.

This affects AWStats which displays a too large "Add to Favourites" number. It would probably also mess up "Add to Favourites" figures in any other stats package.

Tom