Reading your Web Statistics

This page shows your statistics over the past year. It includes the exact numbers for daily average and monthly totals for each month.

• Hits (green): This value is a bit misleading and probably not very useful information for you. A 'hit' is defined as any communication between the server and the browser, which includes the loading of all images and other content on the page. For example, a person who goes to a webpage that loads 25 pictures, each picture loading counts as a hit, for a total of 25 hits even though the person is only looking at one page.
• Files (darker blue): Again, this is probably not that useful of information for you. This number counts the different files on your site that have been viewed, but only counts any one item once. For example, if 25 different browsers load the same page, that is only 1 file view.
• Pages (cyan): This is one of the more important numbers. It shows how many pages were viewed on your site. If someone visits your website and looks at five pages before leaving, that counts as five pages in this value.
• Visits (yellow): This value keeps track of a visitor as they look through your website. If a person were to come to the site, look at five pages, and then leave, it would count as five pages (see previous bullet point), but only one visit.

You can now click on an individual month name for more specific statistics.

The first area is a basic overview for the selected month.
NOTE: We are skipping information that won't be useful to you.

• Hits (green): This value is a bit misleading and probably not very useful information for you. A 'hit' is defined as any communication between the server and the browser, which includes the loading of all images and other content on the page. For example, a person who goes to a webpage that loads 25 pictures, each picture loading counts as a hit, for a total of 25 hits even though the person is only looking at one page.
• Files (darker blue): Again, this is probably not that useful of information for you. This number counts the different files on your site that have been viewed, but only counts any one item once. For example, if 25 different browsers load the same page, that is only 1 file view.
• Pages (cyan): This is one of the more important numbers. It shows how many pages were viewed on your site. If someone visits your website and looks at five pages before leaving, that counts as five pages in this value.
• Visits (yellow): This value keeps track of a visitor as they look through your website. If a person were to come to the site, look at five pages, and then leave, it would count as five pages (see previous bullet point), but only one visit.

Top 30 of X Total URLs shows you which areas of your site are visted the most.
Hits are the numbers that are important here.
Note that a slash ("/") by itself is your home page.

Entry Pages are the pages that people enter your site at the most. They might get to these pages through a search engine, a link on another site, or by directly typing in the address. Hits are the numbers that are important here. Note that a slash ("/") by itself is your home page.

Exit Pages are the last pages that people view before leaving your site.
Hits are the numbers that are important here.
Note that a slash ("/") by itself is your home page.

A Referrer is the page that the person was on before they came to your website. It will often be search engine or a website that has a link to your website on it. A Direct Request is someone that typed in your domain name by hand or had your website bookmarked.

Search Strings are the words people searched for on search engines to come up with a link to your site.

User Agents show the web browsers and operating systems (Windows, Mac, etc.) that people most frequently used when viewing your site. MSIE is Internet Explorer. Sometimes you may see the word "crawler" or the name of a search engine in this list. Those are the programs sent out by search engines to read your site.