Statistical Analysis of Motuiti.Com/Abaco.html and related pages
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Hits Versus Visits / Unique Visits

"Hits" is a useless statistic though it is used by many to promote sites. A hit is counted every time one file is accessed on your server, whether it be a page, an image, a program, js file, css file etc. Complex or highly visual pages with lots of js or small images therefore will get 40 "hits" for a page with say a css, 2 js's and 36 images. A page with no images or scripts, gets "1" hit.

Also don't forget that not every page view is an actual read by a human being. Most of our page hits are from search engine spiders, email harvesters, page change checkers, and heaps of automated services where the page is not actually "read" by a human. Yet another reason why you should ignore boasts of "hits" that websites claim in their advertising spiels.

A "visit" depends on how your web log program defines it, but I'm fairly sure your program is referring to one IP that visits you site. Whether they visit 1 page or many, they are just counted as 1 visit.

A "page view" is a useful index. Just looking at how many times people visited an actual page.

"Unique visitors" is another way to measure. That is also defined by your software but is meant to count a visitor only once if they visit multiple times. Some popular software defines a unique visitor as an IP that visits more than say 30 minutes apart. They are therefore assumed to be different as an IP visit may in fact be a different person accessing from the same IP.