Website Stats

jjmax

Hi,

I've recently put up my first website.
I was looking through the stats, and I'm getting 30 hits a day apparently.
Does this mean 30 people are visiting my site a day, or is one person clicking on links in my site 30 times?
I haven't promoted the site at all either, bar on a few business cards and letterheads. Could a lot of the hits my site's been getting be from Web-bots (or whatever)?
Cheers for any input.

mneylon

A hit is not a visitor
A hit is simply a HTTP request for an element on your site, be that a html file, image or other script.

Most stats analysers should be able to give you the number of unique visitors etc.

Miss Polaris

try Statcounter www.statcounter.com on your site - its free and gives excellent stats on your visitors.

nahdoic

thanks for the recommendation Miss Polaris

(I hope you liked the recent tweaks and getting rid of the banner and pop up advertising)

jjmax

cheers people

Rollo Tamasi

i looked up statcounter, they stick a horribly image on your site thou :-(
does anyone know of any free statcounters who leave your website layout alone and just provide you with the stats? just the stats!

nahdoic

huh!?

We off ther most configurable hit counter in the world as well as the option to configure it to be completely invisible. Login to your account, click the wrench icon beside your project name and click "configure counter".

regards,

Aodhan.

hostyle

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

i looked up statcounter, they stick a horribly image on your site thou :-(
does anyone know of any free statcounters who leave your website layout alone and just provide you with the stats? just the stats!

How exactly do you think they, as a third party, manage to collect statistics from your domain? They need to stick something on every page (or analyse your logs but you can detect more by making your own). If it bothers you so much, reduce it to 0px width and height or hide it with CSS. Or write your own stats package

Rollo Tamasi

well they could just provide you with the code to copy and paste onto your site instead of giving you an image

mneylon

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

well they could just provide you with the code to copy and paste onto your site instead of giving you an image

Em. They do.
Have a look at my blog (http://www.mneylon.com/blog)
I'm using statcounter on it and you won't see any image of any kind on it

dahamsta

Rollo, do yourself a favour and save the criticism for when you actually know what you're talking about.

adam