"Tanya Mayer Photography" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Since I have been with this new web host, I have a full range of statistics >for my website at my disposal. > >I am a little perplexed however. It says that I am averaging around 40 >"visitors" per day, "370 "pageviews" per day, "145 unique page views per >day, but that I am receiving about 2300 "hits". I always thought that >"hits" was the amount of people that clicked through to my website? Can >anyone explain what the differences between "hits", "page views" and >"visitors" are for me?
OK. Some of the terminology can vary a little depending on who's using it but... Hits: Items delivered by your server to visitors. Take the case of a single web page with 10 images on it, for example: Every time someone loads that page your server delivers 11 items (the HTML page plus the 10 images). So that page delivers 11 "hits" every time someone loads it. (Geeks like me who frequently surf the web with image loading turned off in their web browser can skew this stat a little.) Visitors: This usually means unique IP addresses that request files from your server. This can be misleading because dialup accounts get a new IP addy every time someone signs on, so several different people may visit your site and yet have the same IP address and your server will think it's the same person (so it will undercount "visitors"). Pageviews: This generally means the number of times your server delivers an HTML document (not an image file, PDF or anything else) to anyone. Unique Pageviews: Usually means unique combinations of an IP address and requested page. If I view 10 pages on your site and Cotty also views 10, but only three of the pages he views are in the 10 that I viewed, you'll get 20 page views but only 17 unique page views. >Or how they are measured? The server keeps a log of HTTP requests. >It appeas that I have >around 700kb transferred on average per day, does this indicate "bandwidth"? Yup. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
