Visits
Number of people surfing to one or more pages on your site. The visit is only registered once while surfing your site. If the user comes back to your site four hours after they stopped surfing, they will register a second visit. This is the most accurate gauge available for how many unique people have visited your website.

 

Hits
Number of files requested from server. This includes every button, picture, CGI script (for processing form requests, for example), as well as the actual pages.

 

Files
Number of files sent out from server. This is restricted to graphics and actual pages.

 

Sites
Number of unique places from which people are coming to your website.

 

Kbytes
Amount of data transferred from the server to visitors' Web browsers. This measures how much outgoing traffic a website is generating.

 

Referrers
Pages leading visitors to your website. This helps track which search engines people are successfully reaching your site through, as well as other sites that are linking to you.

 
Site Map

Usage Summary

A graph visually summarizes the traffic for the last 12 months. To view your statistics, fill in your domain name in the browser, followed by /stats/

Summary by Month

This second graph shows monthly statistics numerically, giving averages by day and totals for each month.

Click on the month's name to see detailed reports for each month.

Click on the links at the top to jump to specific sections of the report.

The Monthly Statistics Summary provides a snapshot of the information farther into the report.

Hits by Response Code is a way of measuring how well your Web site is working from the user's standpoint.

  • Code 200 means everything is working as it should.
  • Code 206 literally means "partial content" displayed-which could be caused by a user hitting the "stop" button before the page completely loads. It is not an error.
  • Code 304 is primarily found in Netscape and means the browser is using saved content, or pages stored in the cache. It is not an error.
  • Code 404 means the user got an error and could not display content. The document requested isn't on the server. This code can also be sent if the server has been told to protect the document by telling unauthorized people that it doesn't exist.

The Daily Usage graph and statistics shows how many hits, files, sites, and Kbytes were logged for each day. It helps determine what days you get the most traffic.

The Hourly Usage graph and statistics shows how many hits, files, sites, and Kbytes were logged by time of day, in one-hour intervals, over the whole month. It helps determine when people are visiting your website most often, which could help you plan updates during less busy times.

The Top URLS chart is useful in determining what your users are looking at on your website. It lists the most popular pages on your site. Followed by charts that tell you which pages people are entering and leaving your site on. The chart shows you which pages in your site are most popular. This helps track which pages are popular, and which ones need work.

The Top Total Sites charts lists the ISPs and other servers accessing your site.

The Top Referrers chart tells you how people get to your website. Direct requests indicate that the user has input the URL directly. Other referrers show things like search engines and websites that contain links to your site.

The Top Search Strings chart tells you what people are typing into search engines to find your website.

The Top User Agents chart tells you what kinds of browsers people are using to look at your website.

The Usage by Country graph and chart tells you what countries and kinds of domains your users are coming from. US residents are divided by the different extensions they're using.

  • US Commercial: .com addresses
  • Network: .net addresses
  • US Educational: .edu addresses
  • US Government: .gov addresses

Other countries are distinguished by a different extension. For example, French ISPs have a .fr at the end of their addresses.