Statistics

What is the difference between 'Hits', 'Files', 'Pages' and 'Visits'?

When viewing your statistics, these numbers can be very confusing if you are not familiar with them. Below is a description of each.

Hits:
These are how many times your page has been loaded or the total number of requests made to the server. This number is NOT unique meaning that if you went to your website 5 times in that day, the 'hits' would go up 5.

Files:
This is how many files are being loaded and actually sent back to the user. File includes images, flash objects, media, ect. This is not unique, so if you downloaded. Not all hits will send data, like 404-Not Found requests and requests for pages that are already in the browsers cache.

Pages:
Pages are those URLs that would be considered the actual page being requested, and not all of the individual items that make it up (such as graphics and audio clips). Some people call this metric page views or page impressions.

Visits:
Now this is the true number to be looking at. This is the count for each unique visit from an IP address. For instance, if you want to your page 20 times in a day, the 'visits' would only go up 1 record count. As long as the same site keeps making requests within a given timeout period, they will all be considered part of the same Visit. If the site makes a request to your site, and the length of time since the last request is greater than the specified timeout period (default is 30 minutes), a new Visit is started and counted, and the sequence repeats. Since only pages will trigger a visit, remotes sites that link to graphic and other non- page URLs will not be counted in the visit totals, reducing the number of false visits.

KBytes A KByte (KB) is 1024 bytes (1 Kilobyte). Used to show the amount of data that was transfered between the server and the remote machine, based on the data found in the server log.


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