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.
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
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.
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.
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.