Interpreting Web Statistics
Viewing your web statistics
If you have purchased a 30Mb (or larger) web hosting account
full visitor statistics are generated
automatically every day for your site.
To view your visitor stats at any time enter the following address in your
web browser:
http://www.<yourdomain>/webstats/.

An explanation of each of the terms used on the web statistics pages is
given below. The statistics are generated by the excellent Webalizer package.
For
further
information please go to
http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/.
Hits
Any request made to the server which is logged, is considered
a “hit”. Thus a hit is a request for any file – html pages,
images, sound files, scripts etc...
Hits also include requests made to the server, which did not result in any
files being returned (for example if the browser has already downloaded a file).
Files
Some requests made to the server, require that the server
then send a file back to the requesting client, such as an html page or graphic
image. The files total is the total number of files sent back to the client
in the specified period.
Pages
The “Pages” total includes all HTML pages
and also any scripts that generate an HTML page (e.g. PHP or ASP pages).
Sites
This is the total number of unique client IP addresses
which made requests to the server in the specified period.
Visits
This is the really important figure. “Visits” is
the total number of unique visitors (i.e. client IP addresses) to your site.
Note that a visitor is not considered unique if they return more than once
in any
30-minute
period.
Detailed Reporting
By clicking on the links for each month you will be able
to obtain more detail about the traffic coming to your site:

Each month's page is divided into sections.
Hits by Response Code
This gives the identifier and quantity of all response
codes returned by the server during the month selected. This section is quite
useful for determining broken links (for example code 404 - Not Found) and
general site integrity.
Daily Statistics
This section gives a day by day breakdown of traffic coming
to your web site in both graphical and numerical form.
Hourly Statistics
This section gives the hourly traffic averages for the
month to date.
URLs
Shows the top 30 pages requested from your site in order
of popularity.
Entry Pages
This shows the top 10 pages that were requested as the
first page by a new visitor (i.e. the page where a user has "entered" your
site"). Normally your home page "/" will be the most popular entry page.
Exit Pages
This shows the top 10 pages that were requested as the
last page viewed by the visitor before they left your site.
Total Sites
Shows the top 30 client IP addresses which requested pages
from your site.
Total Sites by KBytes
This section shows the top 10 client IP addresses ordered
by the amount of data downloaded from your site.
Total Referrers
Shows the top 30 sites which referred traffic to your
site (e.g. search engines, other sites).
Total Search Strings
This section gives the top 30 search phrases used to find
your site on search engines.
Total User Agents
Gives the top 15 browser types used in order of popularity.
Usage by Country
Displays the traffic requesting data from your site by
country.
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