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Re: Hits and Pages

  • Subject: Re: Hits and Pages
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:17:55 +0000
  • Newsgroups: alt.internet.search-engines
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Chris Hope wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Can someone please explain to me the difference between "hits" and
>> "pages" in the context of references/links? Usually the numbers are
>> similar, with "hits" being slightly higher, as expected. However, I
>> found a strange statistic (see below) where one source triggers 10
>> times more hits than pages. What does that mean?
>> 
>> Total: 360 different pages-url  Pages   Percent Hits    Percent
>> http://xxxxxx   337     22 %    3103    58.9 %
> 
> In stats software a "hit" is generally every file accessed including
> images, style sheets, javascript files, html files etc, and a "page" is
> all the actual pages in the site.
> 
> So if you had a page with three images and a style sheet then it would
> create 5 hits when the page was first accessed: 1 (the page) + 1 (style
> sheet) + 3 (the images).

Thanks for that. That must be the explanation. I can think of a few sites
that HotLink images in mine. This explains the difference in figures.

Thanks again,

Roy

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Roy Schestowitz
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