How does the algorithm that detects the visitor's country work?

First, phpMyVisites looks at the hostname extension of the Internet Access Provider. For example, extension for "wanadoo.fr" is "fr". If the hostname extension is a country extension, the visitor’s country is the country of the extension. If the hostname extension is "net", "com" or "org", PhPMyVisits looks at the Web Browser language! If the Web Browser language is "fr-XX" or "en-XX", phpMyVisites looks at “XX”. If not, phpMyVisites considers the Web Browser language as the visitor’s country.
This algorithm is not free of errors of judgment, but these errors are negligible (maximum error rate is 5% over a meaningful period of time)
Besides, this method is fast, simple and easy to implement (no database to maintain, no disk space required). That is not the case of methods that analyze IP address tables sorted by countries.


For more information, see function getCountry in the file core/include/Log.functions.php