Awstats question noob

[irka]

I was looking at this thread very interesting
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=57129

And i see in awstats statistic " Unique Visitors " and " number of visits ". I am wondering. What is a unique visitors ?
Is it somebody that stay on your website more than 2 minutes ? phew... i dunno.. :o

[classifieds]

It's in the awstat's documentation.

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_glossary.html





Unique Visitor:
A unique visitor is a host that has made at least 1 hit on 1 page of your web site during the current period shown by the report. If this host make several visits during this period, it is counted only once.
The period shown by AWStats reports is by default the current month.
However if you use AWStats as a CGI you can click on the "year" link to have a report for all the year. In a such report, period is full year, so Unique Visitors are number of hosts that have made at least 1 hit on 1 page of your web site during those year.
Visits:
Number of visits made by all visitors.
Think "session" here, say a unique IP accesses a page, and then requests three others without an hour between any of the requests, all of the "pages" are included in the visit, therefore you should expect multiple pages per visit and multiple visits per unique visitor (assuming that some of the unique IPs are logged with more than an hour between requests)
Pages:
The number of "pages" logged. Only files that don't match an entry in the NotPageList config parameter (and match an entry of OnlyFiles config parameter if used) are counted as "Pages". Usually pages are reserved for HTML files or CGI files, not images nor other files requested as a result of loading a "Page" (like js,css... files).

[irka]

ok so a unique visitor is a guy that clicked inside your website at least 1 time. Thanks classifields :) Cheers!

[classifieds]

Your welcome!

I just had an argument with someone over this issue so it was fresh in my mind.

-jay