Web site stats help

[lanan]

Could someone translate my web stats in to laymans terms. Sorry for my ignorance.

Day Number of visits Pages Hits Bandwidth
01 Dec 2007 24 59 670 7.83 MB
02 Dec 2007 21 58 619 4.86 MB
03 Dec 2007 19 28 317 3.84 MB
04 Dec 2007 21 59 667 6.93 MB
05 Dec 2007 20 63 950 6.75 MB
06 Dec 2007 26 40 314 2.89 MB
07 Dec 2007 17 49 705 5.36 MB
08 Dec 2007 10 27 276 3.35 MB
09 Dec 2007 20 33 377 3.66 MB
10 Dec 2007 16 27 293 2.24 MB
11 Dec 2007 28 37 395 3.89 MB
12 Dec 2007 24 41 336 2.85 MB
13 Dec 2007 14 43 491 5.28 MB
What are hits as opposed to pages.

Pages-URL (Top 20) - Full list - Entry - Exit
17 different pages-url Viewed Average size Entry Exit
/ 176 8.03 KB 152 73
/html/forsale.htm 88 7.33 KB 17 47
/html/Gallery.htm 65 6.55 KB 13 19
/html/Services.htm 60 7.67 KB 13 20
/html/TheTeam.htm 58 6.26 KB 11 16
/html/Contact.htm 40 4.89 KB 8 27

What do entry and exit and these other figures refer to.

Appreciate your help
Graham

[jamesuk28]

lanan said:

Could someone translate my web stats in to laymans terms. Sorry for my ignorance.

Day Number of visits Pages Hits Bandwidth
01 Dec 2007 24 59 670 7.83 MB
02 Dec 2007 21 58 619 4.86 MB
03 Dec 2007 19 28 317 3.84 MB
04 Dec 2007 21 59 667 6.93 MB
05 Dec 2007 20 63 950 6.75 MB
06 Dec 2007 26 40 314 2.89 MB
07 Dec 2007 17 49 705 5.36 MB
08 Dec 2007 10 27 276 3.35 MB
09 Dec 2007 20 33 377 3.66 MB
10 Dec 2007 16 27 293 2.24 MB
11 Dec 2007 28 37 395 3.89 MB
12 Dec 2007 24 41 336 2.85 MB
13 Dec 2007 14 43 491 5.28 MB
What are hits as opposed to pages.

Pages-URL (Top 20) - Full list - Entry - Exit
17 different pages-url Viewed Average size Entry Exit
/ 176 8.03 KB 152 73
/html/forsale.htm 88 7.33 KB 17 47
/html/Gallery.htm 65 6.55 KB 13 19
/html/Services.htm 60 7.67 KB 13 20
/html/TheTeam.htm 58 6.26 KB 11 16
/html/Contact.htm 40 4.89 KB 8 27

What do entry and exit and these other figures refer to.

Appreciate your help
Graham

VERY SIMPLY

Number of visits = the number of individual computers / people looking at the site

Pages are the number of page requests or pages viewed.

Hits are the amount of times a page has been viewed. So 1 visitor could produce 1000 hits

Banwidth is the amount of transmitted data used between your website and the visitor, ie information that has been sent down the phone line.

entry page is the first page a visitor views, usually Index.htm but could be any of the others.

Exit is the page they left the site on, hopefully the last page of your site.

[lanan]

Pretty bl**dy obvious when you put it like that.
Thanks James

[JamieBeeston]

Almost James

a hit is anything that generates an access_log log entry..

So if you load a page, with 9 images on it, that would create 10 hits..

this is why hits is a pretty meaningless statistic..

If you have two sites..

one with one images on a page, one with 1000 images on the page..

and they both get 1 million hits.. they both look as popular, but in reality one is 1000x as popular!

J

[lanan]

Aha..!
I was wondering what a hit relates to and how a friend's site claims thousands of hits per day. There are a lot of pics on his site..!
Thanks for this info.

[Bibs_LEF]

Pages is the most relevant stat, use that to gauge your sites success.

[burnt]

Set up and use this:

Free, easy and simply brilliant.

http://www.google.com/analytics/

[whygee02]

burnt said:

Set up and use this:

Free, easy and simply brilliant.

http://www.google.com/analytics/

Top tip, I use this on our web services and its invaluable for collating
a) Marketing info - where visitors are coming from, by region/country etc etc
b) Visitor info - what their desktop consists of, operating system, browser, screen res, plugins etc - very useful if for example your site relies on flash plugins and the like.
c) Management info similar to your opening request, but laid out in a high level management friendly manner.

and as burnt says - its free - tiny impact on performance, but so small that almost no visitor would notice.

HTH

Edited by whygee02 on Tuesday 18th December 20:07