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I'm quite new to website tracking and am trying to make sense of my Webalizer stats.
What I would like to know is, why is PHP/4.1.2 listed as a User Agent? I thought this meant browsers? I should also mention my site is php driven in case this is relevant.
The other thing I would like to know is, if a visit is logged everytime a site makes a request for the first time and again after a timeout period, how can there be more sites than visits?
Any help would be appreciated.
Helen.
With regard to other question, on most days the visits and sites are roughly the same number, or there are slightly more visits than sites.
On some days however, there seem to be loads more sites than visits. I'm not sure why this would be. The only thing I can think of is that as only actual pages trigger a visit, could these extra sites be robots?
Hope this makes sense!
Helen
15. Why do my reports show more Sites than Visits?
Visits are only triggered when a valid request is found for a page, as defined by your PageType setting (or a URL that ends with a slash, which is also considered a page type). Sites however, are counted regardless of the request type. It is very common to have more sites than visits, particularly if you host non-pagetype URLs on your site that are linked to from the outside. If you are not hosting URLs that are linked to from outside sites, then make sure your PageType setting is correct. The default is .htm, .html and .cgi extensions, unless you specify otherwise.
Burritos.... yummmy!
Chalupee
The site in question is hosted with an outside company, so I will get onto them about my PageType setting (I don't think I can change this myself). However, if .php is not included in this, I fail to see how I am getting any significant number of visits, as almost all my pages end in .php
Can't think of any instances of non-page URLs which are linked from other sites.
Helen.
