dougadam — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:59:23 +0000

If your visitors have to refresh when they try to view your site. Then I would check your load time.

bja888 — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:19:18 +0000

Most people dont understand how the consept of a "hit" while others just hope you dont. My hosting gives me a "total page views" and I wrote a script to track hits on my main pages (for each of my sites).

Thanks

NewTechGuy — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:01:03 +0000

Hmmmmm.........thanks for the input. Now it's making more sense to me. Very interesting indeed.

It also makes me wonder, why then, do some people love to say things like... "My site gets X amount of hits"?

Some people are even very proud of their amount of "hits". Could it possibly mean that they do not fully understand what the term "hits" really means?

I also wonder if it is possible that different server software has a different way of reporting stats?

Either way, it's all very interesting to me now. Starting to make sense. Thanks for your input.

chrishirst — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:24:52 +0000

depends on your stats package what defines a visit Usually it would be one or more page views by a single IP.

Hits are each request to the server for each constituent part of a page eg: Images, js files CSS files. So a page with 10 images, a .js files and a .css file would equal 11 hits for one page view.

NewTechGuy — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:19:14 +0000

Thanks for the input. It now raises another question for me. What does "total views" actually mean? Is it each time 1 page is viewed? Each time an image is loaded? Each time a page is refreshed? Or all of them combined? Or maybe even something else?

Thanks again for any input....

02bunced — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:12:22 +0000

You're right except that counts for all images, css files as well. Thus 39,084 doesn't seem unreasonable

redwilly — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:48:16 +0000

ummm, i think visits are unique visitors, and hits are total views of your site (including page refreshes), however im not quite sure considering if you had 54 visitors and 39,084 hits each visitor would have to view or refresh your website 724 times...