Analyzing Traffic - Visitors V. Hits

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A key component to every web site is traffic analysis. When analyzing traffic, it is important to understand the difference between hits and visitors'and why both are important.

Be One With The Log

To analyze traffic to a site, you should be looking at your server logs. Server logs come in very raw data, but most hosting companies have interpreting programs that summarize the information into readable form. From these programs, you should be able to analyze who is sending you traffic, the number of hits and visitors among other information.

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Many people, myself included, are lazy when it comes to discussing traffic results. We tend to use "hits" as a catch phrase for traffic hitting a web site. This isn't entirely true. Traffic should always be analyzed in two categories, hits and visitors.

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A "visitor" is a click from someplace on the net to your site. In your server logs, a visitor will be credited with visiting the site one time regardless of the number of pages the visitor views. For example, a person entering a brick n' mortar bookstore is only one potential customer regardless of the number of books the person looks at.

A "hit" is a click on any page of the site and represents a multiple of the visitors. When you review server logs, the hits represent how many times visitors clicked site pages. Going back to our bookstore example, every book viewed by the person in the bookstore would be a hit. So, which information is more important'

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The simple fact is both visitors and hits are important statistics to analyze in your server logs. Obviously, the information on the number of visitors is important because you want to know how many potential customers are coming to your site. That being said, you should never focus on visitors without contemplating hits as well.

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