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What is the difference between hits & visits?

By Skip Victor - Mar. 27, 2008

I'm looking at awstats data and am a little confused on the difference between hits, visits and views. I get the unique visitor stat but the for example my site had 1k visits, 4k Pages, 20k hits???


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  1. By an anonymous user on Mar. 27, 2008

    Look at the glossary http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_glossary.html


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  2. By an anonymous user on Mar. 27, 2008

    Someone comes to your site. This is 1 visit.


    In the process, I request 4 html files, 6 jpegs and 2 css templates.

    That will be counted as 4 + 6 + 2 = 12 hits


    Within the next 24 hours, the same person visits your site again, from the same IP address,

    and request 15 files this time.


    So, that's a total of :


    1 Unique Visitor, 2 Visits, and 27 Hits.


    Hope that helps...


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