Geno on September 12th, 2011

While auditing an affiliate program, and going through all its major elements, we had a client ask: Can we change our cookie length?  It seems too long to me… Their cookie length was set at 120 days. My answer to questions like this has been the same ever since I published this blog post: since [...]

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Geno on August 25th, 2009

Really interesting results of a study on cookie retention have been published in one of the Sun Microsystems blogs yesterday. In his “Web Analytics Analyzed” blog Paul Strupp has revealed the following chart which demonstrates “what percent of users returning after X days on the same computer still have the same cookie”: The key numbers/findings [...]

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