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Deciphering Your Website Statistics

Website statistics is a powerful tool that allows you to learn about the people who visit your website. Our website statistics program is run every night and can be accessed anytime by using your statistics link.

Use the menu on the left-hand side of you website statistics page to navigate through your statistics report. Below are explanations of each item on the menu. If a word appears in red text, you can click on it to get the definition for that word.

Jump to a Section:

General Statistics

The first page you will see when you go to view your website statistics, the General Statistics Summary page will give you a summary of how popular your website is.

Hits Section:

  • "Hit" is a request for any file on your website (web pages, images, etc).
  • "Average Hits per Visitor" indicates how many hits each visitor has on average. A visitor equals at least 1 hit, but each visitor can have multiple hits.
  • "Cached Request" is a request that was cached on a client. If a browser has a cached copy of the requested file, it sends special request to a server so it sends the file only if it hasn't been modified. Otherwise the browser uses the cached copy of the file, and the request is logged on the server as the cached one.
  • "Failed Request" is a cache request which caused an error.
     


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Page Views Section:
  • "Page View" is a request for a web page file.
  • "Average Page Views per Visitor" indicates how many pages on your website each visitor views on average.

Visitors Section:

  • "Total Visitors" indicates how many people have visited your website. Each computer connected to the Internet has a unique IP address. The statistics program determines the number of visitors by remembering the IP addresses that access your website. If a request from an IP address came after 30 minutes since the last request from this IP, it is considered to belong to a different visitor.
  • "Total Unique IPs" indicate the number of different IP addresses that have accessed your website.

Bandwidth Section:

The "Bandwidth" section normally tells you how much bandwidth your website is using on our web servers. We do not store this information because we do not limit bandwidth on our client's websites. Therefore, this section may come up as all zeros.

Activity Statistics

The "Activity Statistics" section summarizes the number of hits and visitors your website gets by the day, hour of the day, day of the week and the month.

Access Statistics
  • Click on the "Pages" link to learn which pages on your website are most popular.
  • Click on the "Images" link to learn which images on your website are most popular.
  • Click on the "Directories" link to learn which directories on your website are most popular.
  • "Entry Page" indicated the first page visited by a user on the site.
  • "Exit Page" indicates the last page visited by a user on the site.
  • Click on the "Paths" link to see which paths are most commons for visitors to follow within your website.
  • Click on the "File Types" link to learn which file types on your website are most popular. ASP, HTML, and HTM are examples of web page file extensions. JPG, GIF and BMP are examples of image file extensions. CSS is the extension for website Style Sheets, which control the formatting of your website.
Visitors
  • A "Host" is a computer connected to Internet. User hosts are shown in the reports as IP addresses or domain names.
  • "Top-Level Domains" refers to the suffix attached to Internet domain names. Current top-level domains include .com, .net, .org, etc.
  • "Organizations" refers to the visitor's ISP (Internet Service Provider).
Referrers
  • Click on "Referring Sites" and "Referring URLs" to learn how visitors were referred to your website. If it says "No Referrer" that means the visitor typed your website address directly into their web browser's address bar.
  • Click on "Search Engines" to learn which search engines people use to find your website.
  • Click on "Engines and Phrases" to learn which search engine and keyword phrase combinations people use to find your website.
  • Click on "Search Phrases" and "Search Keywords" to learn which keyword phrases people use to find your website.
Browsers
  • Click on "Browsers" to learn which web browsers your visitors use.
  • Click on "Operating Systems" to learn which operating systems your visitors use.
  • Click on "Spiders" to learn the which search engines have been indexing your website. Search engines use spiders to gather information about your website for their databases.