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What do these numbers mean? Can I tell how many
unique visits per day the home page gets from these?
The failed requests for the month seems high.
Is the 21,000 just the total number of pages that
were viewed on my site?
These are my stats for one month.
General Summary
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This report contains overall statistics.
Successful requests: 651,008
Average successful requests per day: 21,000
Successful requests for pages: 160,244
Average successful requests for pages per day: 5,169
Failed requests: 15,395
Redirected requests: 336
Distinct files requested: 868
Distinct hosts served: 23,592
Data transferred: 7.58 gigabytes
Average data transferred per day: 250.31 megabytes
Thanks
Try ignoring the "requests" numbers because "pages" are more meaningful. "requests" refer to all kinds of files - the page code itself, the images on the page, css files, js scripts, and so forth. All in all, there are at least 868 different files on your site - again this is images and everything else.
Your visitors saw, or requested, a total of 160,244 pages during the month, which averages out to 5,169 page views per day.
Regarding individual visits ... if a typical visit was one page long, you had about 5,169 visits per day. If a typical visit was 1,000 pages long, you had about 5 visits per day. See how you can't tell how many visits you had? You can guess at the length of a typical visit but usually you want the stats to tell you that important number.
The failed requests can be dead links, broken images, but they can also be things that visitors didn't notice - requests for a robots.txt file that doesn't exist, or requests for a favicon.ico file that doesn't exist. But 15,000 failed hits for that number of requests is over 2% and that's too high; it should be about 1/10 of that in my experience. Run a link checker or, better yet, get your logs from your hosting service and open them looking for 404 codes in the status column. Excel would work fine for this.
