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SetH
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28th Feb 05 at 22:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
just looking at the usage summary for one of my sites and trying to interpret the data.

hits 21253 and visits 344 for the last month

What is the difference between those 2 stats, isnt a hit and visit the same thing?
Joff
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28th Feb 05 at 22:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Hits is generally every request for an item on the server.

So, 1 hit for the page, 1 for each image on the page, etc.

Visits are normally sessions. So visitor goes onto the site, server creates a session that lasts whilst the user keeps clicking on links within the site.
After 20 mins or so inactivity, session expires.
Ian
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28th Feb 05 at 22:15   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Hit is every single thing you pass, ie. every page and image.

Visits is the number of unique people.
Joff
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28th Feb 05 at 22:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Does this site have photos of a certain lady?
Joff
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28th Feb 05 at 22:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Hit is every single thing you pass, ie. every page and image.

Visits is the number of unique people.


FFS, so slow.
Joff
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28th Feb 05 at 22:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I even gave examples.
I'd have been awarded extra marks for that.
SetH
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28th Feb 05 at 22:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ok so visits are unique, so a new ip address begins a new session? person leaves site and session is ended. What if same ip address visits 30 mins later? is that logged as another session and unique visitor?
Joff
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28th Feb 05 at 22:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Depends.

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
Ian
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28th Feb 05 at 22:27   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
There's no way of telling, you have to guess. Usually 30 minutes is the timeout, and after that time activity from the same IP is regarded as new traffic (which for Freeserve/AOL users it probably is)

 
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