Danny CarltonNow that I have this site on a separate account, I’m able to accurately measure the stats for it, and distinguish them from my other stuff. Below is the stats for the four days in December following the move to the new account. My comments are in red
Monthly Statistics for December 2003
(actually only the 28th through the 31st)All of my other sites combined Disk usage 15.96 Megabytes 4.36 Megabytes Total Hits (see bottom of page for definitions of these terms) 71,609 8,741 Total Files 28,224 6,414 Total Pages 7,885 2,958 Total Visits 1,296 17,57 Total KBytes 285,423 42,295 Total Unique Sites 967 Total Unique URLs 165 Total Unique Referrers 136 Total Unique User Agents 176 . Avg Max Hits per Hour 426 5101 Hits per Day 10,229 24,371 Files per Day 4,032 9,854 Pages per Day 1,126 2,867 Visits per Day 185 364 KBytes per Day 40,775 97,066
Top 18 of 18 Total Search Strings # Hits Search String 1 89 58.55% congenital adrenal hyperplasia 2 27 17.76% adrenal hyperplasia 3 13 8.55% hyperplasia 4 4 2.63% cah 5 3 1.97% adrenal 6 3 1.97% adrenal hyperplasia education 7 2 1.32% www.congenitaladrenalhyperplasia.org 8 1 0.66% 15 month old is scared 9 1 0.66% adernalectomy 10 1 0.66% can you take too much calcium 11 1 0.66% congenital adrenal 12 1 0.66% congenital adrenal hyperplasia support group 13 1 0.66% congenital adrenal hyperplasia. 14 1 0.66% congenitaladrenalhyperplasia 15 1 0.66% headaches dizziness 16 1 0.66% medical pictures 17 1 0.66% what is adrenal hyperplasia 18 1 0.66% what is congenital adrenal hyperplasia
- Main Headings
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.
Tip: By looking at the difference between hits and files, you can get a rough indication of repeat visitors, as the greater the difference between the two, the more people are requesting pages they already have cached (have viewed already).
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 guage 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 transfered between the server and the remote machine, based on the data found in the server log.
- Common Definitions
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 accessable 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. 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.