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    Explain please the hit and visits

    Silly question, what is the difference between hits and visits?..... hits is many times more than visits.... also what is the difference between visits and unique visitors, is it just that they are unique!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by webguru72
    Silly question, what is the difference between hits and visits?..... hits is many times more than visits.... also what is the difference between visits and unique visitors, is it just that they are unique!!!!
    Unique visitors (per day): The number of individuals who come to your site. If I show up 5 times it's counts as 1 unique and 5 visits (I think that's right).

    Hits:
    This one I'm sure about. 100 uniques average 5 pageviews each and you have 500 hits for the day.

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    thanks guys
    so basically a page that has 5 pictures, a header file, could be counted as 7 hits as it would count the main page + 5 picture files + a header file .... theoratically.
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    No.
    A good stats program will show unique visits (the unique individuals who came to your site today), and hits should equal the number of times a whole page got served.

    I read a comment about "Awstats counting photos as hits", and would like to learn more about that, so I'm more knowledgable about stats. Pix and the header / footer should not be consider hits.

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    i think awstats does.... but i'm not sure.
    I love awstats tho... it's just wonderful.

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    Hits count the number of times a certain file has been accessed, most sites have several different sections in a site, a header, a footer, side navigations and etc. each which come togather on one page so hits would count more then 1 when people go on that 1 page. Visits are number of unique people, and impressions are number of pages people have seen.

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