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- benfal99
How is this possible?
Here's the stat for one of my website today:
ReInvigorate: 4 visitors
Webalizer: 61 visitors
Awstats: 28 visitors
WordPress Stats: 28 visitorsWebalizer and Awstats are directly provided by my host, Bluehost.
I dont know what is the right stat...
- ********0
Maybe the 4 visitors are "unique" visitors
- what does it mean ?benfal99
- a unique visitor counts 1 for every person visiting your site. a non-unique is when one of those users clicks around********
- your site (visiting many pages) and adding to the total that way.********
- so the increase in "hits" could just be ONE unique visitor clicking on 7 of your pages.********
- benfal990
Also, one basic question... WHAT is the difference between a hit and a visit ?
- ********0
A visit is when a person or a bot visits your site or page.
A hit is when a file is sent to the browser from the server. So, each little gif, jpg, include, plus the page itself. Hits aren't really all that useful for tracking usage statistics, in my opinion.
- ukit0
The truth is that this is all just an elaborate charade, what really happens is that a monkey rolls some ten sided dice and then an intern punches that into the computer.
- sherm0
hit or http requests are tracked more by products or AWStats. Hits merely show what bandwidth usage is.
The more useful metric is visitors and related to visitors (unique and returning)...
Of course, you should look into implementing a robots file on your server to not allow bots access to all your files (and skewing your analytics)
$herm
- benfal990
but why all my trackers doesnt show the same result? Reinvigorate is always lower than the others
- benfal990
is 28 visitors the number i should check as the true one ? (Awstats and WPstats)
- ukit0
It's because they have different methods for deciding what a "real" user is.
If you look at the raw stats compared to something like Google Analytics, you typically see the stats are like 2-3 times higher. That's because of the huge number of bots that hit every site all the time, often outnumbering actual users.
- ukit0
Well, yeah, if they are reading your RSS that wouldn't be a site visitor. Anyway I'd recommend hooking up Google since it's widely thought to be the most accurate.
- ukit0
This kind of explains it:
- benfal990
can you guys visit this: http://www.mu6.ca
i just installed Google Analytics and I need some hits for it to start analysing
- BattleAxe0
here is one take on it
How do the Summary Stats work?The 'Summary Stats' determines whether a visitor has been to your website before by using a cookie. So if a user has cookies disabled we have no way of knowing if they are unique or not, and will by default be considered unique. However the majority of visitors have cookies enabled.
To make up for relying on cookies in the summary stats, the rest of the stats are based on your detailed log analysis of the last xxx number of pageloads. The uniqueness in this case is based on your visitors' IP addresses. This method works very well for the majority, but yet again there is an exception. AOL users, and visitors who use what is known as a 'dynamic web proxy' that changes each time they access a webpage. So if a single AOL user visits 7 webpages on your website it will likely come up as 7 different IP addresses!
Both cookies and IP addresses have their strengths and weaknesses for determining the uniqueness of a visitor. It is impossible to be 100% accurate the entire time, but with the Standard StatCounter Project you get the best of both worlds. Cookies for the 'Summary Stats' and IP addresses for the 'Detailed Log Analysis'!
- OSFA0
What would be considered a normal number of visits per day on a personal site? Just out of curiosity?
What are your stats??
Hahaha, this is nerd language instead of the 'how much you bench?'
- BattleAxe0
I would gage about 20-50 Visitors for a personal site that is not plugged to much around the web
- zaq0
hurry up!! with this traffic you should post ads all over your website