dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
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Whats the difference?
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Adam_B
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Registered: 13th Dec 00
Location: Lancashire
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visits would be different ip address', hits is how many times the page has been looked at by anyone. i think.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Definition of hits:
A single request from a Web browser for a single item from a Web server
Definition of a visitor:
A visitor is a user that spends time browsing your site - logged in the site's statistics as a referring URL and "time spent" in the site.
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Tim
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Registered: 21st Apr 00
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A 'hit' is a single request for a file. One jpg, one html file, etc, etc. To display a single page is usually quite a few hits as it's html, css, few images, etc. People usually quote 'hits' as the number of users that visited their site -- it's not the case.
A visit in most stats packages is based on a 'visit' from a single IP address, with a timeout of around 20 minutes, i.e. if I visited the site, viewed a few pages within 20 mins of each other it would be one 'visit'. If I came back again later that day it would be my second 'visit.
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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yeh, ^
so hits may be, they've got on your home page, clicked a link to another page on the site, then say come back to home page etc.
visits is - 1 unique person viewed.
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Tim
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Registered: 21st Apr 00
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Month - Jan 2006
Unique visitors - 36,182
Number of visits - 103,755
Pages - 12,363,366
Hits - 42,828,985
Bandwidth - 164.01 GB
Number of unique visitors is particularly difficult to get right down to proxies, etc, etc. It's probably lower than the true number in most cases...
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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
Location: Greater London
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wel our site is nothing near that, mainly because it isnt finished and not advertised anywhere.
Interestingly the visits have shot up this month, since ive had a link in my sig 
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