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Support Center : How to Read A Web Site Statistics Report |
| Hits |
Simple
Explanation:
Every web page is made up of a number of items; the page itself,
graphics and other things. If a page has 9 graphics and on one page, every
time a person visits the page it will register as 10 hits (1 page plus
9 graphics)
Extended
Explanation:
A hit is any response from the server on behalf of a request
sent from a browser. This includes any response from the server, not
only text files or documents. If, for example, a HTML page has two images
embedded, the server generates three hits if this page is requested:
one hit for the HTML page itself and two hits for the two inline images. |
| Pageviews |
Simple
Explanation:
This is the number of web pages viewed on the web site. If you
visit a website and click on the contact page, then the information page
and then the about us page it will count as three page views.
Extended
Explanation:
Pageviews are all files which either have a text file suffix
(.html, .text) or which are directory index files. This number allows
to estimate the number of "real" documents transmitted by your
server. If defined correctly, the analyzer rates text files (documents)
as pageviews. Those pageviews do not include images, CGI scripts, Java
applets or any other HTML objects except all files ending with one of
the pre-defined pageview suffixes, such as .html or .text. |
| KB
sent |
Simple
Explanation:
The total amount of data, measured in kb, sent to all users.
Extended
Explanation:
This is the amount of data sent during the whole summary period
as reported by the server. Note that some servers log the size of a document
instead of the actual number of bytes transferred. While in most cases
this is the same, if a user interrupts the transmission by pressing the
browser's stop button before the page has been received completely, some
servers (for example all Netscape web servers) do not log the amount
of data transferred but the amount of data which would have been transferred
if the user would have completely loaded the page. |
| Sessions |
Simple Explanation:
The number of unique different visitors you have based up one
day. If you visit a site and see any number of pages on the site it counts
as one session. If you visit the site later in the day, from the same
computer, and look through more pages it still only counts as one session
total. If you visit the site the next day from the same computer, it
will add another session to the total count.
Extended Explanation:
This is the number of unique hosts accessing
the server during a given time-window. This time-window
is one day by default. For example, if the time-window
is two hours, all accesses from a certain host in less
than 2 hours after the first access from this host
are lumped together into one session. All following accesses
more than 2 hours apart from the first access will
be counted as a new session. This way you may get an estimated number
of how many sessions. |