Web geniuses - help

[rbnyc]

I am trying to figure out how many visitors, how many unique visitors, and total page views for my org's website.

Our web stats come in the following categories:

Total Hits
Total Files
Total Pages
Total Visits
Total KBytes
Total Unique Sites
Total Unique URLs
Total Unique Referrers
Total Unique User Agents

What do you think? Does total hits mean total visitors? Does total visits mean unique visitors? Total pages probably means total page views?

I can't reach the person who puts together the stats.

Thanks.

[Duer 157099]

1. I'm no genius but I'll try to help

Hits = requests to the server, so for example, if you home page is just text, that's one hit. If you have an image plus text, that's 2 hits. Four images plus text is 5 hits. And so on. It's practically meaningless, unless you put a "hit counter" on the page that shows all of these so people think your site gets a lot of traffic.

Visits = each time someone comes to your site, it counts as a visit. If they come twice, that's 2 visits.

Pages = the number of pages that are viewed

Files = I suppose this refers to downloadable files that you might have available as a link (eg, to a PDF or mp3 or other media file)

Unique is what you really want to know about. I'm unclear on what "unique sites" means. Referrers refers to the page that has a link to your site (like if DU had a link to your site and people clicked on it). User agents refers to browser info of the visitor. The most direct way to discern unique visitors is via visitor IP, although many people use proxy agents which would appear as the same IP. That's why they offer those other pieces of info, to help you determine (eg, if you get two different user agents from the same IP, you could consider those 2 unique visitors)

Hope this helps a little. I'm sure someone with more specific help will come by.

[rbnyc]

2. Thanks.

It looks like our stats don't give us the info we need. That would be typical.

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