Hello EveryOne,

I am looking for 'accurate' answers to the following questions:

1. What is an "impression"? If one of my parked domain at fabulous.com gets 50 impressions per day, what does it mean?

2. What is a unique? or may be what is a unique impression or hit?

3. What is a "hit"? If I see 40,000 hits in Feb. so far in 'Webalizer' stats program on my server, what does it mean?

4. Is a hit same as an impression?

5. What is a page view? How does a page view differ from impressions or hits?

6. What is a visit? If I see 10,000 visits in Feb. so far on my server in 'Webalizer' stats program, what does it mean?

7. In C-Panel: I see 'Analog' stats program showing almost 8 times more hits on our sites than 'Webalizer' stats? Which one is accurate? Why is this huge difference in stats?

Its kind of confusing, how do all these terms differ and what they really mean?

Please also provide link to some good plain English resource on these definitios if possible.

Thanks for help.

Regards.

impression = page view
unique/day = page view but from a single IP
hit = each item on a web page constitutes a hit (e.g. any image is a hit)

Originally posted by timechange.com
impression = page view
unique/day = page view but from a single IP
hit = each item on a web page constitutes a hit (e.g. any image is a hit)

Thanks for the response. Does iy mean if a page has 10 images on it it will count as follows if seen once by someone:

Impression (or page views) = 1
Hits = 10

Thanks.

Rick

It will actually generate 11 hits, 10 for the images and 1 for the html page.

. What is an "impression"? If one of my parked domain at fabulous.com gets 50 impressions per day, what does it mean?

-Means someone requested the page and loaded it.

2. What is a unique? or may be what is a unique impression or hit?

-A unique IP address (supposedly a unique person who hasnt been there within a certain timeframe [12-24 hours in most cases])

3. What is a "hit"? If I see 40,000 hits in Feb. so far in 'Webalizer' stats program on my server, what does it mean?

-Any type of file being loaded.

4. Is a hit same as an impression?

-No.

5. What is a page view? How does a page view differ from impressions or hits?

-How many times someone loaded an entire page.

6. What is a visit? If I see 10,000 visits in Feb. so far on my server in 'Webalizer' stats program, what does it mean?

-It means 10,000 times did someone visit the website. Visitors have a shorter time-to-live than a unique I believe. So I visit twice a day that is 1 unique/2 visits.

7. In C-Panel: I see 'Analog' stats program showing almost 8 times more hits on our sites than 'Webalizer' stats? Which one is accurate? Why is this huge difference in stats?

-Dont know, they both should be parsing the same log files.


Also, these definitions vary by service, program, provider, etc. ZI am trying to define the most common.

Great responses. Thanks for the help.

Regards,

Rick

Originally posted by kohashi 7. In C-Panel: I see 'Analog' stats program showing almost 8 times more hits on our sites than 'Webalizer' stats? Which one is accurate? Why is this huge difference in stats?

Analog is what you show your advertisers, Webalizer is what you show yourself. :D

Seriously though, same thing here. Can anyone elaborate?

I used to suspect that maybe Analog was counting hits on other sites on a shared server, but I have run an offline stats analyzer on my logs and its numbers are closer to what Analog reports, making Webalizer the inaccurate one.

Originally posted by sightz
Analog is what you show your advertisers, Webalizer is what you show yourself. :D

Seriously though, same thing here. Can anyone elaborate?

I used to suspect that maybe Analog was counting hits on other sites on a shared server, but I have run an offline stats analyzer on my logs and its numbers are closer to what Analog reports, making Webalizer the inaccurate one.

I also did little test of mine and it appears 'Analog' numbers are correct. But I guess we can certainly benefit from other experienced people's advice here.

Thanks,

Rick

I was interested in this as well, thanks for the great detailed responses!