Difference between visits and hits

[rocknrollo]

Does anyone know what the # of hits means in aswat stats.

It will say 1200 visits then 53000 hits?

Thanks

 

[Sam]

visits = unique visitors
hits= pageloads

 

[Peter]

no that is not necessarily correct damitssam. You can have loads of hits for 1 page. For example if you have a page with 10 images on it and using a style sheet that is 12 hits (1 for the page, 1 for the style sheet and 1 for each image)

In the context rocknrollo has asked I would say 1200 is the page loads and 53,000 hits are the requests (for page/images/css etc)

 

[slaughterbeck]

Does anyone know what the # of hits means in aswat stats.

It will say 1200 visits then 53000 hits?

Thanks

There are actually four Awstats categories (five if you count bandwidth).


Unique visitors:
This is probably the most important to me because you may visit your site repeatedly to make changes and bots such as Googlebot may return hundreds of times each day for large constantly changing content sites but large numbers of unique visitors means your site is performing well.

Number of visits:
This is the most misleading category for me especially when I’m making a major update or bots are deep crawling.

Pages:
Is the total pages retrieved by the server and can be misleading as these increase dramatically when bots deep crawl repeatedly.

Hits:
The retrieval of any item, like a page or a graphic or any other file.



Hope this helps.



Best wishes,
Kimmy

 

[ahtum]

Technical definition of a visit

"a visit happens when someone or something (robot) visits your site. It consists of one or more page views/ hits. One visitor can have many visits to your site."​

Technical definition of a hit

"each file sent to a browser by a web server is an individual hit."​

 

[OK]

if you have a page with 5000 pictures on it, and 1 person visits that page, you would have 1 visit and 5001 hits (all of the pictures + actual html file)

 

[Peter]

lol OK you may as well have copied and pasted what I said.

 

[OK]

must have skipped over your post.. dont remember ready that one :D