A simple query
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"Most business map their IP address/Hostname"
What does above statement imply ?
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Thanks for your reply.
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It really wasn't easy to find out what you mean by posting a sentence completely out of context
But you were obviously referring to this thread. This simply means that whenever you find an IP address in you hostnames report in Google Analytics, you should be able to look it up in order to see the host it comes from, rather than just the IP address, as most businesses map their IP to their hostname. E.g. 123.123.123.1 could be mapped to business.example.com and therefore you could find out that 5% percent of your visitors that show up in your hostnames report are from business.example.com.
(I made up all figures and names of course ;-))
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