Overview:
One of the most powerful features we offer is the web site statistics
software you can access through the Control Panel. This invaluable tool
will help you monitor traffic and all other related web site statistics.
Our Web Statistics software allows you to see the statistics on your
site for the last twelve months. You may view hits, files viewed, files
cached, pageviews, sessions, and KB sent.
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To check your site stats simply choose the Site Statistics icon
from the Control Panel
You then have a choice between the regular version and the Frames
version which requires a Java enable browser. You will see the
following:
Statistics for the last 12 months
Frames version (requires JavaScript)
Clicking the first line takes you to the regular version, clicking the
second line takes you to the Frames version, The regular version presents
all the numbers in table format, while the Java version is a little
clearer with graphs and tables and is easier to navigate.
Major web site statistics tracked are as follows:
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Hits
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Files
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Cached
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Pageviews
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Sessions
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and you have the option of viewing them by month or by day over the
last 12 months. They are displayed in both an easy to read graph and table
format. The following is a definition of each term:
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Term |
Meaning |
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Hits |
One of the most misunderstood terms on the Internet, a
Hit is not a proper measure of site traffic:
A hit is any response from the server on behalf of a request sent
from a browser. This includes any response from the server, not only
text files or documents. If, for example, an HTML page has five images
embedded, the server generates six hits if this page is requested: one
hit for the HTML page itself and five hits for the five embedded images. |
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Files |
If the user requests a document and the server
successfully sends back a file for this request, this is counted as a Code
200 (OK) response. Any such response is counted for as a file.
Again, "file" here means any kind of a file. |
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Pageviews |
Pageviews are all files which either have a text file
suffix (.html, .text) or which are directory index files.
This number allows to estimate the number of "real" documents
transmitted by your server. If defined correctly, the analyzer rates
text files (documents) as pageviews. Those pageviews do not include
images, CGI scripts, Java applets or any other HTML objects except all
files ending with one of the pre-defined pageview suffixes, such as .html
or .text. |
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Sessions |
This is the number of unique hosts accessing the server
during a given time-window. This time-window is one day. All following
accesses more than 1 day apart from the first access will be counted as
a new session. This way you may get an estimated number of how many
sessions are started on different sites to access your server. |
There are also many other web site statistics available:
Average Load: View the Top 5 Days, Top Day, Top 5 Hours, 5
Minutes and 5 Seconds to find out when the most traffic is on your site.
Great tool for testing the particular effectiveness of a new Ad campaign.
Top URLs: the top 30 most commonly accessed URLs (hits, 304's,
data sent).
Top Domains: the top 30 client domains accessing your server
most often.
Top Browsers: the top 30 browser types accessing your site.
Top Referrers: the top 30 referrer hosts.
All URLs: the overview/detailed list of all files requested
Not Found Requests: detailed list of all 404 response (page not
found) codes
All Domains: all client domains accessing your server.
Reverse Domains: all reverse domains accessing your server.
All Browsers: all browser types accessing your site.
All Referrers: all referrer hosts.
This web site statistics software is an extremely powerful feature for
anyone serious about tracking their web site traffic.
We also offer access to your
raw
access logs for your own analysis.
The Web Stats Software is included in all our
hosting
packages.
