Measuring hits, requests, etc

[Reno]

We all know the confusion that some people have regarding "hits"; "page requests"; "unique visitors", etc. I was wondering -- is there a tool that a person could use to measure (on demand from the desktop) the number of "requests" or "hits" that a specific webpage would generate when accessed?

In its simplest form, you'd type in the page url, the program would connect, then after it requested each file within that single page -- as the browser would do -- it would provide the stats for you to view in real time (not in the server logs).

If anyone is aware of such a tool please let us know... thanks....

[Reno]

Thanks dcrombie. Since posing my message I've been checking around, and about the closest I've gotten to my "ideal" is the perl script referenced below (is very easy to install -- took 2 minutes). If anyone else is interested in this kind of info, I can recommend this:

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[cgi.rnrtech.com...]

"This script allows you to enter the URL of a web page to check. It will display the size of the page (including both HTML and graphics) and it will display estimated download times for the web page at various connection speeds."

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[dcrombie]

In Safari you can select Window->Activity which will list all items loaded on that page. From memory Netscape has View->Page Info which does something similar.

The actual number of hits on the server is always going to be indeterminate however as browser caching and ISP proxies can serve a page or graphic directly.