Hits vs. Visits
I've been often asked what is the better score of a website's
traffic. I prefer VISITs to HITs. Anyone can come to a
website and "hit" it often, asking for pages and rocketing up the "hit
count."
As our web host tries to explain below, a "Visit" is when a specific
person comes to our website and stays a while roaming the pages, still
rocketing up the "hit count," but still only one person, one visit.
To
average 134 unique visits per
month in 2004 and an average of 270 unique visits per month in 2005,
I'd say we are doing something right.
Thanks for helping us spread the word about Arts & Crafts in Maine!!
Hits represent the total
number of requests made to the server during the given month.
Visits occur when some remote site makes a request for a page
on your server for the first time.
As long as the same site keeps
making requests within a given timeout period, they will all be
considered part of the same Visit.
If the site makes a request
to your server, and the length of time since the last request is
greater than the specified timeout period, a new Visit is
started and counted, and the sequence repeats. Since only pages
will trigger a visit, remotes sites that link to graphic and other non-
page URLs will not be counted in the visit totals, reducing the number
of false visits.
2008 Months / Hits / Visits
January:
19463 1492
February:
11919 870
March:
23992 1947
April:
20756 1890
May:
28985 2437
June:
33010 1833
July:
96647 3034
August:
19605 1752
September: 18154
1551
October:
22560 2257
November: 23828
2325
December: 25776
2466
2007 Months / Hits / Visits
January:
21357 1867
February:
16063 1556
March:
23992 1947
April:
20756 1890
May:
25907 1838
June:
28669 2378
July:
62604 3301
August:
22068 2209
September:
20948 2097
October:
24672 2068
November: 19551
1819
December: 13733
1478
2006 Months / Hits / Visits
January:
11430 641
February:
13260 608
March:
13657 840
April:
10427 719
May:
10006 773
June:
17441 1035
July:
48208 1641
August:
15244 967
September:
13652 1315
October:
20080 1633
November:
18997 1406
December: 16025
1758
2005 Months / Hits / Visits
January:
3196 215
February:
2155 221
March:
1820 196
April:
2864 254
May:
1403 167
June:
2968 282
July:
4485 264
August:
2595 222
September: 7247
288
October:
5644 357
November: 8489
375
December: 9826
405