223 Unique visitors, 17899 Unknown (unresolved ip)... Help?!

[woahdolla]

Hosts : 0 Known, 17899 Unknown (unresolved ip)
223 Unique visitors

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Those are my awstats. Can someone with knowledge please tell me, does that mean that around 17,000 ppl have actually came to my site? (I know that with dial up someone gets a new IP after every login, and that some ppl share the same IP, but im just goin for an estimate)...


So if around 15-17,000 ppl have came, why are there so many unresolved IP's? And is there anything I can do to fix this?

I believe most of my traffic comes from my myspace profile. I have had this problem in the past with myspace visitors not showing up as uniques. Does anyone know the reason?:confused:

[Not Registered]

Greetings,

I've just seen your question.

1. Your server only records the numerical IP address of the hosts that contact you, not their names.

2. You may turn DNS resolution on in your server.

3. Also, some of the addresses in your logfile may be unresolvable - not everyone
creates Reverse DNS entries for all their IP addresses.

4. I'd recommend you move to Google Analytics!

All the Best,

Not Registered.

[Jean-Luc]

Hosts : 0 Known, 17899 Unknown (unresolved ip)
223 Unique visitorsWhat this means is that you have :
- 223 different visitors who viewed at least one page of your site
- 17899 different visitors who viewed "something" of your site.

This type of figures probably indicates that there are hotlinks to some images of your site : many people visit a page of another site that displays your images and never see any page of your site.

Not Registered explained that DNS should be configured. Have a look at the DNSLookup directive in your AWStats config file.

AWStats is fine. There is no reason to move to another software/service. Each stats system demands that you learn what the reports mean. It is never obvious. By the way, Google Analytics does not report hotlinks.

Jean-Luc