WEB SITE STATISTICS : VISITORS

How many people are looking at our web site?

No web site statistics can give you a full answer to this question. Web site servers computers can only record accesses (request for information from users, search engines, web caches, etc.) Though this is rarely the case, 1000 hits could be one person clicking 1000 times on the same page or image. You can get an approximation by looking at a couple of numbers and by thinking about your web site.

Select a month you want to examine.
In an orange box near the top it lists the number of "Unique Visitors" that have visited the site in that time span.
This number is based on the "Total Home Page Accesses" (how may request the server received for your top page) and "The Number of Unique sites Served" (how many different locations requested items from your site).

*Note that if you move your mouse slowly over the bar charts, the numbers behind those bars will appear in a small pop up box. Those same numbers are generally summarized on the screen for you also.

All of the essentials are there, beginning with the total number of individual visits made to the site. Notice that accesses (a single, successful request made by a web browser) and visits (one or more accesses made by the same visitor, with no more than a certain time interval between accesses) are not the same.

If your site changes weekly, you will probably notice a more uneven pattern of accesses. Say you list Friday performers on your bar site, you will probably see a lot of accesses Thursday and Friday and fewer over the weekend.

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