Hits - |
the total number of requests
made to the server during the given time period (month,
day, hour etc..). |
Files - |
the total number of hits (requests)
that actually resulted in something being sent back to
the user. Not all hits will send data, such as 404-Not
Found requests and requests for pages that are already
in the browsers cache. |
Tip - |
By looking at the difference between
hits and files, you can get a rough indication of repeat
visitors, as the greater the difference between the two,
the more people are requesting pages they already have
cached (have viewed already). |
Sites - |
is the number of unique IP addresses/hostnames
that made requests to the server. Care should be taken
when using this metric for anything other than that. Many
users can appear to come from a single site, and they
can also appear to come from many ip addresses so it should
be used simply as a rough guage as to the number of visitors
to your server. |
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,
and defaults to any URL that has an extension of .htm,
.html or .cgi. |
Visits - |
occur when some remote site makes a
request for a page on your server for the first time.
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
server, 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. |
Referrers - |
The source of the request first come
from. (Direct Request- means direct enter your url to
get to your site) |
Entry Pages - |
The first page of a vistor first browser. |
Exit Pages - |
The last page of a vistor browser. |