What is the difference between Hits, Views, Visits?
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Hits: A hit is an individual pageview. A single action on the Web server as it appears in the log file. If a page is refreshed, the server gets hit again but the vistor/user session doesn't change. The number of hits are the number of times the server is asked for information. A visitor downloading a single file is logged as a single hit, while a visitor requesting a Web page including two images registers as three hits on the server; one hit is the request for the .html page, and two additional hits are requests for the downloaded image files. While the volume of hits is an indicator of Web server traffic, it is not an accurate reflection of how many pages are being looked at. Page Views: Views is the number of hits that actually resulted in something being sent back to the user, such as an HTML page or image. Hits to files designated as pages. Supporting graphics and other non-page files are not counted. Page views will give you a more accurate count of how many times pages within your site are requested. Visits and unique visitors in particular will give you an estimate of how many people are coming to your site. Visits: Number of times a visitor came to your site. A visitor is defined as one machine making requests for pages and there is at least one hit every 30 minutes. A visit is defined as a hit orgininating from the same IP-address with a maximum time between two hits of 20 minutes. The visitor/user session only changes if the page is left and is accessed again later. If the visitor continues to browse your site after they reach the idle-time limit, a new visit is counted. The default idle-time limit is thirty minutes. |
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