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  2. Web analytics - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of web data to understand and optimize web usage. [1] Web analytics is not just a process for measuring web traffic but can be used as a tool for business and market research and assess and improve website effectiveness.

  3. HTTP cookie - Wikipedia

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    t. e. HTTP cookies (also called web cookies, Internet cookies, browser cookies, or simply cookies) are small blocks of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's computer or other device by the user's web browser. Cookies are placed on the device used to access a website, and more than one cookie ...

  4. Analytical engine - Wikipedia

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    The analytical engine was a proposed digital mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. [2] [3] It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's difference engine , which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator.

  5. What are cookies, exactly, and are they good or bad? Cyber ...

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    Cookies are "heavily utilized by marketing firms who can target your interests and buying habits," tech and cybersecurity expert Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International, tells ...

  6. Allow cookies? Here's the final answer - AOL

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    Cookies are one or more small pieces of data that identify your computer to a website with a unique code, Joseph Steinberg, cybersecurity expert and emerging technologies advisor, tells Yahoo Life ...

  7. Enable cookies in your web browser - AOL Help

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    Enable cookies in your web browser. A cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer by your web browser. With cookies turned on, the next time you return to a website, it will remember things like your login info, your site preferences, or even items you placed in a virtual shopping cart! By default, cookies are automatically enabled ...

  8. What are cookies exactly? Cybersecurity experts break it down

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    Cookies are generally broken into two groups: Session cookies, which expire immediately after you're done being online. Persistent cookies, which stick with you during many different web sessions ...

  9. Software analytics - Wikipedia

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    Software analytics is the analytics specific to the domain of software systems taking into account source code, static and dynamic characteristics (e.g., software metrics) as well as related processes of their development and evolution. It aims at describing, monitoring, predicting, and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of software ...