awstats and page loading

Does awstats show stats for pages that didn't finish loading?

[latimer]

"Is it possible for a visitor to visit a page and leave before the javascript reports the visit, thus not being counted?"
We just installed awstats and will be adding google analytics later.

If the server and connections are slow... the visitor bails out before page loads.... No content appears from page... Browser just spins... is there any record of this in awstats?

[kilkenny]

I don't know this for a fact but I'm pretty sure that the visit is written to the log file (and will be included by awstats or any other log file analyzer). With the HTTP protocol, interaction between client and server is pretty loose, and the server won't actually know that the user has moved on unless it "pings" the browser to ask if it is still connected (IIS doesn't, and I doubt Apache is any different).

If you use a javascript tracker such as analytics, it's a different story. The page would actually have to load in the browser in order to log a hit.