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Hits vs Page Views vs Visits, The Simple Stats.

Vern — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:18:44 +0000

A simple description of the three big stats when it comes to websites; Hits, page views and visits.

Imagine you have a web site with two pages, both pages containing text and 3 images.

If someone comes opens the home page, clicks to the second page and then leaves you will have;

1 visit
2 page views
8 Hits

They have visited the website and no matter how many pages they look at, it is one visit until the session is closed. Sessions are usually ended by the user closing the browser or clicking through to another website.

During that visit they viewed two pages, the home page as one and then the second page.

Each page records 4 hits, the 3 images plus the HTML page containing the images and text. The server has produced 4 files in total for the home page, but because they opened the second page that also contains 3 images and another HTML page, that adds another 4 hits.

Blog a Blog

Vern — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:19:48 +0000

A great presentation on the “Social Media Revolution” from socialnomics.net

I love stats, but the thing I like most about stats is that 78.75% of them are made up on the spot. Or was it 14.32%?

Not sure if I totally agree with the whole, “we no longer search for the news, the news finds us” and the relative advertising comment, because people still need to open a browser. You find news when your interested in receiving it.

Stats made cool

Vern — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:06:59 +0000

History of the Australian web, graphically represented. Looks very nice and it’s easy to use, great interpretation of data.

http://avant.interactionconsortium.com/australian_internet/#