Scout Analytics has developed their own solution to the problem of accurately measuring website audiences – recording the typing rhythms of web users. The developed software tracks minute characteristics in typing patterns; for example, how long a person presses on each key.
The company says this “biometric signature” can be used to eliminate errors in user counting, such as in instances where more than one person shares a website account.
The conclusion came about when analysing more than 20m visits to various paid-for sites. The company determined that those 20m visits originated from nearly 600,000 unique devices – work or home PCs or mobile phones. “Further correlating the biometric signatures from the visits, Scout Analytics identified more than 175,000 unique individuals – approximately 45,000 of whom were unlicensed,” the company said.
Using traditional cookie-based measures alone would have overstated each websites’ user counts by two-to-four times according to Scout Analytics.
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