I need to get something straight

[ProgMania]

Okay, is this information right:

Unique visitor: People who visits your site with different IP adresses

Hits: Yeah thats my problem.. I kinda forgot what a "hit" is ?

[d16man]

Okay, is this information right:

Unique visitor: People who visits your site with different IP adresses

Hits: Yeah thats my problem.. I kinda forgot what a "hit" is ?

A hit is how many times your website is opened...for example...if You get 1 unique visitor, who looks at your site, closes it, and then opens it again, you will get 2 hits....everytime you look at your own website it counts as a hit also.

[ProgMania]

So I believe 17.000 hits is good ?

[login]

So I believe 17.000 hits is good ?

Thats not for sure. If your visitors looks at 17 pages each...

[ProgMania]

Okay then.. thanks for the info :D

[Aragorn]

A hit is how many times your website is opened...for example...if You get 1 unique visitor, who looks at your site, closes it, and then opens it again, you will get 2 hits....everytime you look at your own website it counts as a hit also.

If you are referring to awstat or webalizer, then that is not what a hit is.

If you have 5 webpages each having 2 images, an external javascript file and an external stylesheet.
Let us suppose a person visits 3 pages in your site.
Then you have
* 1 unique visit
* 3 Page views
* 15 hits (the html file + 2 images + 1 js + 1 css = 5 files, 5 * 3 pages visited = 15 hits)

In other words hits is the number of requests for objects received by your server.

[ProgMania]

Which program shows your REAL hits and REAL unique visitor number?

[d16man]

Awstats shows real unique visitors...thats the number you need to be concentrating on anyway...get the uniques up, and your "hits" will skyrocket...

[ProgMania]

Thanks for the info :D

[Webanalyticsbook]

Be really precise....or your numbers will be screwed:

A hit is an action on a website such as when a user views a page or downloads a file.
A unique visitor is a human being ( ;-) ) and uses a web browser (;-) ) regardless of duration and pages visited.

[wdwp]

What you're probably looking for is

Page Views / Unique visitors

(the average number of pages opened by each user).