Usage statistics

SailorPtah · Post by **SailorPtah** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:15 am

The statistics checking page lists the monthly totals of the following:

KBytes (total amount of KB loaded)

Visits (total number of people who've visited)

Pages (total amount of pages loaded)

Files (total amount of files - pages, images, etc. - loaded)

Sites (???)

Hits (???)

My question is, what does it mean by "sites" - how do they differ from "pages"? - and what exactly are "hits"? Can someone just give me a few definitions, please? ^_^;

Brockway · Post by **Brockway** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:26 am

Sites, I got no clue. Hits are every time a file is requested from your site. Every button, title image, and picture loaded are each counted as a hit. Or something like that.

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:50 am

http://www.webalizer.org/faq.html
#5 explains the difference between hits and files.

the FAQ wrote:5. What is the difference between 'HITS' and 'FILES'?

There is an on-line quick help that explains most of the major terms and headings used in the reports. Basically, HITS is the total number of HTTP requests that the server received during the reporting period. Any request made to the server is considered a hit. FILES is the number of hits that actually resulted in something being sent back to the user, such as an HTML page or image. 'Total Files' and '200 - OK' totals should be the same. If you add up the totals in the 'Hits by Response Code' section, it should be the same as the 'Total Hits' figure. For a complete description of what all the numbers mean in the output, see the README file, which is supplied in all distributions and available from our ftp site. There is also an Webalizer Quick Help document on-line that explains the most common terms used in the reports.

#15 explains sites and visits

the FAQ wrote:15. Why do my reports show more Sites than Visits?

Visits are only triggered when a valid request is found for a page, as defined by your PageType setting (or a URL that ends with a slash, which is also considered a page type). Sites however, are counted regardless of the request type. It is very common to have more sites than visits, particularly if you host non-pagetype URLs on your site that are linked to from the outside. If you are not hosting URLs that are linked to from outside sites, then make sure your PageType setting is correct. The default is .htm, .html and .cgi extensions, unless you specify otherwise.

Post by **Kisai** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:26 am

Incidently, the pages value is used to compute the PL ranking on the guide.

If your comic is hotlinked by someone else (ie they found a work around.) Then the PL ranking will be lower than it should be.

SailorPtah · Post by **SailorPtah** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 3:06 pm

Okay, so a "visit" refers to a certain kind of site request, so the value for sites should be higher than the value for visits, right?

Because in some months (including this one) that's true, but in most of them my comic registers more visits than sites. Why is that?

And what distinguishes a "page" from a "site", then?

As for "hits" - requests the server gets, not all of which result in a file being transferred, so the number of hits should be higher than the number of files. That's true for every month. So what requests are made of the server that don't yield a file sent back?

PL ranking = popularity ranking? And where is that?

Sorry for all of these questions - they aren't particularly urgent, I'm just curious ^_^;

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 3:34 pm

The PL Ranking is the number of pages loaded for your comic divided by the total number pages loaded for Keenspace. You can see this in the guide.
http://guide.keenspace.com/KeenspaceNumPL_1.html

the guide wrote:Elf Only Inn
By
Josh Sortelli,
Last Update: 20040326
First Comic: 20020523

Pages %: 5.566
Number of Days: 223
Comic Style: Comedic
Comic Content: Elves
Update Frequency: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Description: Epic Fantasy Roleplaying Adventure! In a chat room! Which means there's nothing Epic about it, there isn't much Roleplaying, the Fantasy setting is largely ignored, and the Adventures are all a result of bizarre personality disorders, from megalomaniac moderators to that kid next door that REALLY likes Dragonball Z. The result=Comedy Goldmine.

EOI currently accounts for 5.566% of all traffic going to Keenspace.
In its day, Sexy Losers accounted for as much as 14%.
To be fair, though, your comic is doing REALLY well if you make as little as 1/10 of 1%. Considering And Shine Heaven Now is currently 0.528%, you're doing exceptionally well by Keenspace standards and that puts you at #37 of all 4000 comics (that update).

Simple statistics, simple math.

SailorPtah · Post by **SailorPtah** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 2:31 pm

faub wrote:Considering And Shine Heaven Now is currently 0.528%, you're doing exceptionally well by Keenspace standards and that puts you at #37 of all 4000 comics (that update).

Whoa . . . I feel really special now ^___^ Thanks!