"Hits" , "Visitors" , and "Uniques" - an explanation

[kush]

Different people have different interpretations between the words "hits," "visitors," and "uniques"

A counter defines a hit to a page each time that page is loaded.
A webalizer "visitor" would be the same thing as a counter "hit".
A thread view on GFY that only has 1 page would be the same as 1 hit.

Make sense so far?

Webalizer defines a "hit" as each time a file is attempted to be accessed. In technical terms, if you load a gallery page with 2 banners and 15 thumbs, then this would be 18 hits for that 1 visitor to the gallery (and this is also assuming the visitor does not click any thumbails to access to full size pic)

Here's a sample webalizer snapshot from one of my domains.
Notice the difference between average daily hits and average daily visitors. It's a huge difference.


A unique can be definited as a visitor accessing your site through an IP that no other visitor uses. If 4 roomates share a single connection through a router and they all visit thehun.net, then this would be 1 unique and 4 visitors.

Make sense? Any questions?

I made this thread because somebody was selling a site and their definition of a hit was being misinterpretted by most of the people responding. Hopefully this clears things up.

[- Jesus Christ -]

Webalizer is for RETARDS...


AWSTATS bitch.

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/awstats.pl

[kush]

Originally posted by - Jesus Christ -
Webalizer is for RETARDS...


AWSTATS bitch.

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/awstats.pl

Webalizer and AWSTATS both have the same definitions for a hit and a visitor.

And you missed my point.

[CyberTraffic]

Great thread.

Though a lot of people pretend they know, many don't understand the differences.

[JD]

awstats ROCK

[Oracle Porn]

wow kush I think you saved my life!
I thought I had a million visitors tgp but it ended up to be a 20k!
Well thank you
XOXOXO

[Basic_man]

So webalizer don't show up uniques?

[- Jesus Christ -]

Originally posted by kush



Webalizer and AWSTATS both have the same definitions for a hit and a visitor.

And you missed my point.

No actually I did not miss your point. I just don't care.

If somone started a thread about how to pull up your pants I would say that cargo pants are better, doesnt mean I missed the point at all.


BTW, your wrong... AWSTATS shows uniqe visitors and webalizer only shows UNIQUE file hits.

[kush]

Originally posted by Basic_man
So webalizer don't show up uniques?

It depends on your version of webalizer.

But from you see from my screenshot, no, this does not show uniques.

[Oracle Porn]

Originally posted by - Jesus Christ -
No actually I did not miss your point. I just don't care.

If somone started a thread about how to pull up your pants I would say that cargo pants are better, doesnt mean I missed the point at all.

shut up before you get humiliated like the retard you are.

[kush]

Originally posted by - Jesus Christ -
No actually I did not miss your point. I just don't care.

If somone started a thread about how to pull up your pants I would say that cargo pants are better, doesnt mean I missed the point at all.


BTW, your wrong... AWSTATS shows uniqe visitors and webalizer only shows UNIQUE file hits.

lol, valid point I guess.

I hope you get your kicks from this ;)

edit: I cannot confirm about the specific differences between AWSTATS and Webazlier. But I do know that different versions show different statistics.

[- Jesus Christ -]

Originally posted by Oracle Porn


shut up before you get humiliated like the retard you are.

[Oracle Porn]

Originally posted by - Jesus Christ -

That will be $5 sir

[Myst]

awstats looks nice

[kush]

Bump for the newbs ;)

[- Jesus Christ -]

I was mean kush. thanks for the INFO!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOAH DUDUDUDUDUDUDE! BIL AND TEDS EXCELLENT ADVENTURES!~

[IPK]

great stuff man, i'm well on my way