Comments on: Difference in Hits vs Visits in Webalizer?

By: Mitch Keeler

Mitch Keeler — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:59:51 +0000

Hey Sara, it does it’s best job at separating new visitors and returning visitors so you can tell how many different people (or PCs) are hitting your hosting account. Where “hits” counts all the times the hosting account is hit up for a response, visits try to separate things out to where each visit is a unique. Hope that helps!

By: sara

sara — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:15:17 +0000

You state the following:
Now where it gets a little confusing is Webalizer calculates the time spent by that IP address on the site, page or graphic. If the time difference is larger than the configured “visit timeout” time (or has never visited before) they are considered a new visitor

Does “visits” include only what are considered “new” visitors? Or are repeat visits counted as “visits” also? I would appreciate if someone could respond. Thanks!

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By: jimlongo

jimlongo — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:24:09 +0000

I have always put most weight in Pages, which I think equates more to an actual URL View. Then if you take visits and pages you can also deduce how many pages/vistor.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:19:27 +0000

It would be nice to keep the google, yahoo, msn and other bots visits out of our Webalizer logs.

Also just seeing the human website visitors/hits and their search phrases would be a great time saver when analyzing the recent visitors.

I do like to know if the bots have come but they seem to be crawling more often than not these days -clogging up the stats.

By: JTMarks

JTMarks — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:05:28 +0000

Finally, I get this!!

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:52:52 +0000

Also, adding a guest book page to get real visitor feedback should increase your web ranking.

By: Hfellter

Hfellter — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:46:47 +0000

This was very helpful, Mitch. I hate when there’s jargon I don’t understand right off the bat.

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