Question about AwStats

[DomainEmpire.com]

Hi,

May anyone help me to understand better as AwStats measure web traffic, please ?

I need to understand the difference among these values displayed in diff. columns: "visits", "number of pages" and "hits", thanks for helping.


Luigi

 

[bentong]

I think 'visits' and 'unique visits' is quite obvious.

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_glossary.html

(1) Also called a page hit. The retrieval of any item, like a page or a graphic, from a Web server. For example, when a visitor calls up a Web page with four graphics, that's five hits, one for the page and four for the graphics. For this reason, hits often aren't a good indication of Web traffic. Compare with page view.

(2) Any time a piece of data matches criteria you set. For example, each of the matches from a Yahoo or any other search engine search is called a hit.

maybe that helps.

 

[DomainEmpire.com]

Ok thanks for helping, it's more clear now