摘要 |
Systems and methods are provided for an effective usage measurement of content resources in a hyperlinked environment such as the World Wide Web. In one embodiment, a content publisher is to include the usage monitoring hyperlink ("UMH") in its published content so that access to the content resource generates a network based UMH resource request. The network based request contains sufficient information to identify the accessed content resource as well as the provider and publisher. The system and method can be used to reliably measure the number of accesses to a particular content resource, since the embedded UMH triggers a measurement request when the content resource is accessed.
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