This is regards to my image hosting site which gets disabled frequently as according to the hosting company servage it exceeds the daily hits limit usually in 350000 + hits per day they send me an email then. The hosting stats Traffic Overview has three stats , Unique Views, Page Views, Hits. My unique views are usually around 1200 & page views are around 7000 & the hits are in 400000 Can someone explain to me the hits concept ? Yes i am aware of the definition of those terms , but looking at my stats , do you think i can have so many hits with a few uniques , im pretty sure there is something here im missing. And if it is true then is my host fu(king with me ? Is this limit with every other host ?
Hit - A request for a file from the web server. Available only in log analysis. The number of hits received by a website is frequently cited to assert its popularity, but this number is extremely misleading and dramatically over-estimates popularity. A single web-page typically consists of multiple (often dozens) of discrete files, each of which is counted as a hit as the page is downloaded, so the number of hits is really an arbitrary number more reflective of the complexity of individual pages on the website than the website's actual popularity. The total number of visitors or page views provides a more realistic and accurate assessment of popularity. Page View - A request for a file whose type is defined as a page in log analysis. An occurrence of the script being run in page tagging. In log analysis, a single page view may generate multiple hits as all the resources required to view the page (images, .js and .css files) are also requested from the web server. Unique Visitor - The uniquely identified client generating requests on the web server (log analysis) or viewing pages (page tagging) within a defined time period (i.e. day, week or month). A Unique Visitor counts once within the timescale. More reading here