Can somebody please explain the following for me

[Pies]

On my wesite s control panel i get the following in a table but im not sue what they mean,any help appreciated

Total unique URLs
Total unique sites
Total user sessions
Total unique agents
Total unique referrer URLs

cheers

[TimW]

Hmmm maybe u filled the website memery?

[agent006]

Total unique URLs - not sure
Total unique sites - not sure
Total user sessions - how many people have been to your site
Total unique agents - mow many search engines have looked at it
Total unique referrer URLs - how many different pages link to you.

Not sure about hte forst two as tehy seem to be covered by the last one.

[_DJ_]

Pies said:

On my wesite s control panel i get the following in a table but im not sue what they mean,any help appreciated Total unique URLs Total unique sites Total user sessions Total unique agents Total unique referrer URLs cheers

Presumably they are the stats about your web site?
I can define the terms, but can't really make sense of them!

A 'session' is a Microsoft term which is used to identify a unique conversation between the client and web server. It's usually used to identify a person throughout their visit to the site. In each session the user may visit many pages. If the same user visits the site a second time (after the first session expires) then that user will account for 2 sessions.

A 'URL' is a unique resource locator. i.e a string which identifies an object on a web server uniquely. So, if I download a page containing 2 HTML frames and 5 pictures the web server will have served 7 URL's

A web 'site' is a collection of web pages with a common theme.

A unique agent will identify a user/machine browser combination. This counter will attempt to identify the actual number of users who have visited a site.

A referrer URL is another web page which references one of the pages hosted on your web server. So, Leven Technology's URL is referred to by Pistonheads.com, for example (and that's one unique referrer URL).

DJ

[rebelstar]

A single webserver can host more than one website; hence the "Total unique sites".

DJ has everything else pretty much covered.

[Pies]

cheers

[_DJ_]

rebelstar said:

A single webserver can host more than one website; hence the "Total unique sites". DJ has everything else pretty much covered.

I was going to mention virtual servers etc but I wasn't sure how the hosting company had abstracted that to their web based user interface or whether Pies had more than a single site.

DJ