| STATISTIC
DEFINITIONS: Hits represent the total number of
requests made to the server during the given time period
(month, day, hour etc..).
Files represent the total number of hits
(requests) that actually resulted in something being sent
back to the user. Not all hits will send data, such as
404-Not Found requests and requests for pages that are
already in the browsers cache.
Sites is the number of unique IP
addresses/hostnames that made requests to the server. Care
should be taken when using this metric for anything other
than that. Many users can appear to come from a single site,
and they can also appear to come from many ip addresses so
it should be used simply as a rough gauge as to the number
of visitors to your server.
Visits occur when some remote site makes a request
for a page on your server for the first time. As long as the
same site keeps making requests within a given timeout
period, they will all be considered part of the same Visit.
If the site makes a request to your server, and the length
of time since the last request is greater than the specified
timeout period (default is 30 minutes), a new Visit is
started and counted, and the sequence repeats. Since only
pages will trigger a visit, remotes sites that link to
graphic and other non- page URLs will not be counted in the
visit totals, reducing the number of false visits.
Pages are those URLs that would be considered the
actual page being requested, and not all of the individual
items that make it up (such as graphics and audio clips).
Some people call this metric page views or page impressions,
and defaults to any URL that has an extension of .htm, .html
or .cgi.
A KByte (KB) is 1024 bytes (1 Kilobyte). Used to
show the amount of data that was transferred between the
server and the remote machine, based on the data found in
the server log.
A Site is a remote machine that makes requests to
your server, and is based on the remote machines IP
Address/Hostname.
URL - Uniform Resource Locator. All requests made
to a web server need to request something. A URL is that
something, and represents an object somewhere on your
server, that is accessible to the remote user, or results in
an error (ie: 404 - Not found). URLs can be of any type
(HTML, Audio, Graphics, etc...).
Referrers are those URLs that lead a user to your
site or caused the browser to request something from your
server. The vast majority of requests are made from your own
URLs, since most HTML pages contain links to other objects
such as graphics files. If one of your HTML pages contains
links to 10 graphic images, then each request for the HTML
page will produce 10 more hits with the referrer specified
as the URL of your own HTML page.
Search Strings are obtained from examining the
referrer string and looking for known patterns from various
search engines. The search engines and the patterns to look
for can be specified by the user within a configuration
file. The default will catch most of the major ones. Note:
Only available if that information is contained in the
server logs.
User Agents are a fancy name for browsers.
Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Konqueror, etc.. are all User
Agents, and each reports itself in a unique way to your
server. Keep in mind however, that many browsers allow the
user to change it's reported name, so you might see some
obvious fake names in the listing. Note: Only available if
that information is contained in the server logs.
Entry/Exit pages are those pages that were the
first requested in a visit (Entry), and the last requested
(Exit). These pages are calculated using the Visits logic
above. When a visit is first triggered, the requested page
is counted as an Entry page, and whatever the last requested
URL was, is counted as an Exit page.
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