Webalizer stats help

Sites total v Visits

[newsparrot]

Can someone help me understand why we have: - one day stats=

Hits -209362 7.22%
Files -130953 7.34%
Pages -4030 7.88%
Visits -2260 7.90%
Sites -126127 9.80%
Kbyte -383060 7.53%

As you will see visits/sites is the part we don't get. I have looked in google for a clear pointer, but to no avail. The site has a large number of links from other related sites, so why are we showing so small a number of visits?

[coopster]

On most Webalizer installations there is a link at the base of the stats pages that will lead you to the site documentation. There you will find the definitions that might help clear up your questions:

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.