Hi,

Can anyone point me in the direction of a good website/guide describing how to read the output provided by Webalizer. My clients find it confusing and need a little help.

Cheers.

How is it confusing?
LOL

I would like to know

The meaning of - 'requests', 'page views', 'hits' 'sites' and 'visits' etc..

They are also getting confused as to why the two stats packages give diffeerent results.

Thanks.

Here are some definitions that may help -

Hits - A hit is any response from the server on behalf of a request sent from a browser. This includes any response from the server, not only text files or documents. If, for example, a HTML page has two images embedded, the server generates three hits if this page is requested: one hit for the HTML page itself and two hits for the two inline images.

Pageviews - Pageviews are all files which either have a text file suffix (.html, .text) or which are directory index files. This number allows to estimate the number of "real" documents transmitted by your server. If defined correctly, the analyzer rates text files (documents) as pageviews. Those pageviews do not include images, CGI scripts, Java applets or any other HTML objects except all files ending with one of the pre-defined pageview suffixes, such as .html or .text.

Sessions - Similar to unique sites, this is the number of unique hosts accessing the server during a given time-window. This time-window is one day by default for backward compatibility, but it can be changed with the option -u or the Session directive in the configuration file. For example, if the time-window is two hours, all accesses from a certain host in less than 2 hours after the first access from this host are lumped together into one session. All following accesses more than 2 hours apart from the first access will be counted as a new session. This way you may get an estimated number of how many sessions are started on different sites to access your server.


I hope this helps. Please note that these are not my answers. I have just copied it from a site. But these answers help us understand the various concepts of stats.
Have a great day :)

regards
amar

Thats great.

What site was it that you got this info from? I have looked at the webalizer site and cannot find anything there.

Cheers.

SuperDon, try the info at http://www.webalizer.com/webalizer_help.html

Thanks.:D