visitors & Hits

[Stra]

Could someone tell me want the diffences is in A visit verses a Hit when checking stats in control panel.. I know it is pretty simple but it seems like there are a whole lot more "Hits" than "visitors"

Thanks so Much!

[PatrickDeese]

hit = server petition.

If you had a website that had 9 images, plus the page - that would be 10 hits.

If a person went to that page, and then a second page with another 9 images - you would record 1 visit and 20 hits.

[netguy]

As Patrick pointed out, you can see where 'hits' are virtually useless as far as analysis purposes, since it can fluctuate wildly depending on the design of the page.

I don't know what you are using for log analysis, but much more important than 'hits' are 'unique' visits, and 'impressions' (the number of pages each person looks at).

If you have a 50-page information site with AdWords, for example, and your unique visits per day are 500 and your impressions are 600, then only 1-in-5 are bothering to click to another page of your site.

In such a case, you want to create a more compelling message in your links to attract visitors to many more pages per visit.

Steve

[Stra]

Thanks, Guys