Phil

as the title really

I read somewhere that SN gets 30,000,000 hits a month

Is one hit when I log in

or one hit everytime a visit a different page

NotoriousREV

A "hit" is when any file is downloaded from a webserver by anyone. If it's a plain text page, that counts as 1 hit. If it's a text page with 5 graphics, that's 5 hits.

What people really want to monitor is "visits". Visits are calculated from IP address (which is the unique identifier of a single computer on the internet at a given time). If a single IP Address downloads several files within a set time limit (usually around 20 mins or so) this is a visit. This number is usually much lower than the hit figure, but is more representative of visitor numbers.

This depends on the Stats software you use to analyse your http logs as they determine these things slightly differently.

Phil

Thanks

SiDHEaD

Actually that's 6 (page + 5 graphics)


Andy

[Edited by SiDHEaD - 9/28/2003 12:39:58 PM]

Redkop

So if you have a site/bbs that has avatars and pic signatures enabled, it will show as having more hits than a comparable one that doesn't have them enabled?

tiggers

Then of course if you have an e-commerce site or a bulletin board you need to monitor the number of transactions or posts per unique visitor to see how successful your site is.

Additonally you can study paths, patterns and exit points to see where your site is working for you and where it isn't and so on and so forth.

Sorry just thought I'd add to the melee. Just been through this with a web marketing company who we are trying to work with who for some reason don't understand that number of visits isn't the whole story, but they've got lots of lovely graphs to show you ....

Regards,

tiggers.

[Edited by tiggers - 9/28/2003 2:48:31 PM]

Phil

So how many visits do Scoobynet get rather than hits?

NotoriousREV

@ Sidhead: D'oh!

Redkop

There was a site that listed the top 100 bb's based on hits/visits about 18 months - 2 years ago, does anyone have any idea what it was? IIRC SNet was high up on the list.

ALi-B

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ALi-B

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nope ahh well

Toonman1

Redkop

I remember that site too. Got the link from SeatCupraNet, but when I had a quick search for it, they'd cleared the section it was in. Anyone remember the site?

www.nufc.com was quite high up too - currently 10,000,000 hits a week I believe! Most of them from me probably...

Cheers

thecirsch

Phil,

You've had a couple of hits in the passed year. I can think of at least 2!!!!