pkrass Posted October 6, 2005 Posted October 6, 2005 Hello. I am VERY web newbie...Can anyone tell me what all those 'pretty stats' mean? Thanks, Patrick Quote
TCH-Andy Posted October 6, 2005 Posted October 6, 2005 Welcome to the forums Basically it tells you how many people have been to visit your site. I've stolen a fuller answer from an old post by Jimuni unique visitors This is the number of visitors with unique IP addresses that have visited your site. They may be the same visitor but on a dial up which changes the IP address or they log on in different machines in a library for instant Number of visits This is the number of times that people have visited your site including return visits from IP addresses Number of Pages This is the total number of pages read by those who visited Number of hits This definition gets banded about all over the place, but its actually the number of files requested. E.g. Say I have a front page which has a 3 pictures on it and its visited by 3 people. That means that I will have (1 page + 3 pictures) x 3 people = 4 x3 = 12 hits Bandwidth This it the amount of bandwidth that your website has consumed. Remember there is a limit to this depending on the package you brought. Days of month, Hours etc Further down the screen you can see how many you get per day and even what hour they arrive at. Visitors domains/countries (Top 25) You can also see what domains they access from (e.g. If i was to surf your website from my local library, that would end in .gov.uk) Also I can find out how popular my site is say in France or Belgium etc Hosts (Top 25 The next section allows you to see what hosts are providing access. This is basically a bit more info from where people have come from. I know on mine that the top one is my own IP address. You can also get IP addresses from here too Next section allows you to see what spiders and robots are looking at your site. This is handy for seeing how good search engines like to visit your page Visits Section A handy section allowing you to how long people stay looking at pages Files Types Shows you what files are used. Allows you to see say your flash files are being looked at or not. Pages-URL (Top 25) Allows you to see your top 25 pages that are viewed on your website Operating Systems (Top 10) Allows you to see what OS your visitors are using when surfing your site Browsers (Top 10) Here you can see what browsers are browsing your website. Unfortunately some browsers can mimic others. ALso you can catch file grabbers here too Connect to site from Possible the most useful section telling you where the traffic is coming from. This is very handy as it allows you to see what sites are driving traffic towards yours Search Keyphrases (Top 10) and Search Keywords (Top 25) A handy tool for seeing what people type into search engines which brings up your websites. Very good for wanting to know what words you should be inserting to get your pages fully SEO Hopefully that should help, if not, let me know! Jim Quote
stevevan Posted October 6, 2005 Posted October 6, 2005 Welcome to the forums! Hope Andy's (or rather Jimuni's) explanation answers your question. Quote
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