The website in question gives video lessons. The homepage has a list of lessons, with a thumbnail for each. If someone clicks on a lesson Foo, they will be taken to Foo.htm. Foo.htm has an Iframe where the video will show. Near the Iframe they select their connection speed with one of three buttons. There a three possibilities, Cable, DSL, Dialup. Once they click on one the buttons this sequence happens. The Iframe on Foo.htm is loaded with either Foo-0.html or Foo-1,html of Foo-2.html. The only content on any of these html pages is the code to launch the selected video player. The selected video player, Foo-(#).swf is launched. Foo(number).swf plays the video, Foo-(#).flv All of the static pages on the site have the extension .htm Only the video launching pages have extensions .html, and only the video players are .swf, an only the videos are .flv So there are exactly an equal number of .html & .swf & .flv files on the site and they all should all have the exact same stat numbers. Now the problem is that my stats show: html-- 2731 4.2 % 57.41 MB 0.1 % swf--- 1245 1.9 % 88.67 MB 0.1 % flv----- 897 1.3 % 46.86 GB 98.8 % Why would this happen? Do I have some problem that I don't understand. The site is: c a p t a i n w a t e r c o l o r dot com
Not necessarily, visitors who have flash disabled in their browser won't see the swf and flv files. Then there are visitors who may stop the page from loading completely, because it takes too long or they are not really interested and just move on.
Thank you for the idea, that makes sense. Do you know if a part of an .flv file is loaded, does that register on the stats as a hit? Or is it ignored completely? In this case, the swf file is loaded milliseconds before the flv, and begins playing immediately. So even if someone decided they were not interested, at least a few meg would already have been sent.
When part of a file is loaded then the stats will show a Status Code : 206 Partial Content It may be that your stats software will ignore showing 206s, to check you would need to open your raw log files from your site's server. As for "at least a few meg would already have been sent", again not necessarily. When the visitor is on dial-up instead of broadband (which many still are) then they would have loaded maybe a few 100 Kb