Basic question about awstats referrers

[LongHaul]

What are the two numbers next to the sites that send people to your site?

Like:

www.site.com 13 13
www.sate.com 11 11
www.sute.com 2 4
www.sote.com 0 23

And why are they different sometimes? (What's up with sote.com in my example?)

I've looked around at the awstats but it's strangely tight-lipped.

[Jean-Luc]

The first number counts the "referrers of the pages" and the second number counts the "referrers of the hits".

Oversimplification, but clarification:

In your example, 13 users came to your web pages coming from site.com. That's clear: 13 pages show a referrer from site.com.

No user came from sote.com, but 23 users viewed a page of sote.com that shows an image from your web site. No user came on a page of your site (0 as first number), but there were 23 hits on files like images of which the referrer was sote.com.

Jean-Luc

[Divisive Cottonwood]

I do use awstats, but only in conjunction with google analytics - I've noticed that awstats is prone to offering up strange mistakes in their stats.

[Ladadadada]

This becomes most apparent when someone views the Google cache of one of your pages.

You will see:

- Google (cache) 0 8

which means that the person retrieved 8 images or css files or js files from your website but nothing that you have configured as a "page".

Awstats has never given me anything I would consider a "mistake" because I can always see what they were looking at in the raw log files. I also use Google analytics and it does a better job of identifying the real users but it can't track non-html files or anything retrieved by bots. I still need both stats packages to get a complete view of what my site is doing.

[LongHaul]

Thanks everyone, that does indeed make sense! I bought a banner ad on a site, and I guess they are using the gif I'm hosting.

I use GA too, but awstats is so good for a quick glance update throughout the day.