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Stats are listed at
http://www.domain.com/webstat
Understand Stats:
Definition list to help you understand how to interpret your stats.
Remember to access stats you would go to your control panel and use
the Webalizer button inside the domain reports menu
Webalizer Quick Help
- Main Headings
Hits represent the total
number of requests made to the server during the given time
period (month, day, hour etc..).
Files represent the total
number of hits (requests) that actually resulted in something
being sent back to the user. Not all hits will send data, such
as 404-Not Found requests and requests for pages that are
already in the browsers cache.
Tip: By looking at the
difference between hits and files, you can get a rough
indication of repeat visitors, as the greater the difference
between the two, the more people are requesting pages they
already have cached (have viewed already).
Sites is the number of unique
IP addresses/hostnames that made requests to the server. Care
should be taken when using this metric for anything other than
that. Many users can appear to come from a single site, and they
can also appear to come from many ip addresses so it should be
used simply as a rough guage as to the number of visitors to
your server.
Visits occur when some
remote site makes a request for a page on your server for
the first time. As long as the same site keeps making requests
within a given timeout period, they will all be considered part
of the same Visit. If the site makes a request to your
server, and the length of time since the last request is greater
than the specified timeout period (default is 30 minutes),
a new Visit is started and counted, and the sequence
repeats. Since only pages will trigger a visit, remotes
sites that link to graphic and other non- page URLs will not be
counted in the visit totals, reducing the number of false
visits.
Pages are those URLs that would
be considered the actual page being requested, and not all of
the individual items that make it up (such as graphics and audio
clips). Some people call this metric page views or
page impressions, and defaults to any URL that has an
extension of .htm, .html or .cgi.
A
KByte (KB) is 1024 bytes (1
Kilobyte). Used to show the amount of data that was transfered
between the server and the remote machine, based on the data
found in the server log.
- Common Definitions
A Site
is a remote machine that makes requests to your server, and is
based on the remote machines IP Address/Hostname.
URL -
Uniform Resource Locator. All requests made to a web server need
to request something. A URL is that something, and
represents an object somewhere on your server, that is
accessable to the remote user, or results in an error (ie: 404 -
Not found). URLs can be of any type (HTML, Audio, Graphics,
etc...).
Referrers are those URLs that lead a user to your site or
caused the browser to request something from your server. The
vast majority of requests are made from your own URLs, since
most HTML pages contain links to other objects such as graphics
files. If one of your HTML pages contains links to 10 graphic
images, then each request for the HTML page will produce 10 more
hits with the referrer specified as the URL of your own HTML
page.
Search
Strings are obtained from examining the referrer string and
looking for known patterns from various search engines. The
search engines and the patterns to look for can be specified by
the user within a configuration file. The default will catch
most of the major ones.
Note: Only available if
that information is contained in the server logs.
User
Agents are a fancy name for browsers. Netscape,
Opera, Konqueror, etc.. are all User Agents, and each
reports itself in a unique way to your server. Keep in mind
however, that many browsers allow the user to change it's
reported name, so you might see some obvious fake names in the
listing.
Note: Only available if
that information is contained in the server logs.
Entry/Exit pages are those pages that were the first
requested in a visit (Entry), and the last requested (Exit).
These pages are calculated using the Visits logic above.
When a visit is first triggered, the requested page is counted
as an Entry page, and whatever the last requested URL
was, is counted as an Exit page.
Countries are determined based on the top level domain
of the requesting site. This is somewhat questionable however,
as there is no longer strong enforcement of domains as there was
in the past. A .COM domain may reside in the US, or somewhere
else. An .IL domain may actually be in Isreal, however it may
also be located in the US or elsewhere. The most common domains
seen are .COM (US Commercial), .NET (Network), .ORG (Non-profit
Organization) and .EDU (Educational). A large percentage may
also be shown as Unresolved/Unknown, as a fairly large
percentage of dialup and other customer access points do not
resolve to a name and are left as an IP address.
Response
Codes are defined as part of the HTTP/1.1 protocol These
codes are generated by the web server and indicate the
completion status of each request made to it.
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