#1 2009-02-06 22:50:03
This week in The Rag....
"We wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who visits us on-line. Market America, which does statistics for our web site, recorded more than 8,000 hits on our web pages last week. In our first week in the fall of 2006, we had 86. There have been more than 400,000 since then. Cheers. "
A "hit" is a culmination of information on a web page. To clarify, if you visit the main page you generate a "hit" for each image and piece of information it takes to make the information viewable.
In other words, the menu bar, title bar, ads, etc... all generate a hit. So for each page you visit, you create multiple hits. Are you following? Even if you click back then forward, leave and come back, you continue to create multiple hits. You could literally create 100+ "hits" during one visit.
For years websites would use that figure to sell ad space. Then developers discovered a way to just track individual hits, known as a "unique hit." A unique hit represents ONE single IP address, no matter how many times you visit. This statistic is the most accurate measure of who visits your website.
Obviously, The Rag is going to promote the higher number. Who wouldn't? although I'm willing to bet THIS number is more accurate: http://www.quantcast.com/thewarehamobserver.com#summary
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#2 2009-02-07 02:23:52
Great link commonsense. Looks like he has under 200 visitors to his website each month. I'm sure half of them are from people on here checking to see the insane stuff he is writing about. The other half appears to be mostly middle-aged and elderly females. Go figure.
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#3 2009-02-07 07:04:14
That Site Speaks For Itself. The Ragman Is A Liar
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#4 2009-02-07 12:10:42
Web Server Statistics for warehamobserver.com
Program started at Sat-07-Feb-2009 11:17.
Analysed requests from Thu-18-Dec-2008 23:21 to Sat-07-Feb-2009 11:11 (50.49 days).
General Summary
Figures in parentheses refer to the 7-day period ending 07-Feb-2009 11:17.
Successful requests: 199,074 (34,110)
Average successful requests per day: 3,942 (4,872)
Successful requests for pages: 49,280 (6,802)
Average successful requests for pages per day: 975 (971)
Failed requests: 4,478 (604)
Redirected requests: 362 (57)
Distinct files requested: 2,926 (708)
Distinct hosts served: 1,588 (494)
Data transferred: 3.62 gigabytes (687.08 megabytes)
Average data transferred per day: 73.38 megabytes (98.15 megabytes)
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#5 2009-02-08 16:55:36
billw wrote:
Successful requests: 199,074 (34,110)
Distinct hosts served: 1,588 (494)
If I could just use your stats for a 7 day period as an example billw....
34,110 = a hit
494 = a unique hit
In laymen's terms...
Last week you had 494 different (or unique) individuals visit your site, and they generated 34,110 "hits" in the course of that week.
It still beats 160 people visiting your site in ONE MONTH! ha ha ha ha ha ha
Here's the bonus (or negative depending how you look at it)....
People on a shared network (an office building or something like that) generate only 1 distinct hit because the IP is the same. You could have more than 494 unique people visiting.
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#6 2009-02-08 17:03:42
TBL wrote:
Looks like he has under 200 visitors to his website each month. I'm sure half of them are from people on here checking to see the insane stuff he is writing about.
Based on the numbers billw posted for this site, I would say nearly all are generated from here.
Besides, the seniors in the nursing homes in which he drops off free papers, probably aren't so internet savy.
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