Ok, I don't know the proper terms for everything and I noticed that people use these words differently. Sometimes different words for what seems to be the same meaning. I am thinking (and how I use it in my site stats) Hits: Same as Unique. Number of users that get to your website, index page. Views: I take it as page views which can be compares to how much people surf around your website. Uniques: Number of different visitors. Visits: Same as Uniques? What do these world really mean?
hits are the amount of url's "hit" views are by page, essentially the same as a hit. unique = unique amount of visitors visits: depends on the program
different programs define them differently. hits: ignore this. it doesn't matter. it usually means EVERY request made. ie if a page has 30 images and a user requests it, that's 31 hits. views: usually synonymous with pageviews. again, defined differently with different programs. some are configured to count some files that others aren't. uniques: sometimes the number of unique IPs, sometimes the number of unique sessions visits: number of sessions