![]() You can test this if you want by overwriting an image on your website then loading the page. While the page text will likely be requested again, things like images will be loaded from the local copy in order to reduce the load on the server. In such a case, the page might be ‘cached’ meaning it is saved locally in order to speed up the page-load time. Therefore, if a user requests a page that does not exist, the server will receive the request and count this as a hit, however a 404-page not found error will occur and this will therefore not count as a file.Īnother time where a hit will be generated but not a file is when a user is visiting a page for the second time. Files are the number of hits that resulted in something actually being sent back to the user such as text or an image. Since single pages on your website can generate multiple hits each time they are loaded and because crawlers like GoogleBot as well as off-site images can all generate hits, it’s important to ignore this stat unless you are starting to worry about reaching your bandwidth limit or want to crack down on hot-linking of your content. Your logs can even have hits showing up in your web stats that are generated from other websites!įor example, if you use an image saved on your server as a signature in a forum, then each time someone visiting the forum loads a page containing your signature, they will load your image and therefore generate a hit that will show up in your web stats! If the forum you visit has tons of traffic, you may start thinking your website is very popular when in fact all the hits showing up in your web stats are coming from another website! If you add an image to the page, a visitor loading the page will now generate two hits because they will be requesting the page and the image. Think about this for a second… If your page only contains text, then a visitor will generate one hit when visiting the page. Hits are the number of individual requests for all file types that are received by the server. Hits are not a very trustworthy statistic and should be ignored at all times because they’re not reflective of traffic to your website. Keep reading to find out what you need to know: Understanding your Webalizer site statistics is important because they provide a picture of how well your website is performing and will help you understand where you can improve by focusing more attention! What are analytics? Have you ever wondered what all those web stats actually mean? Webalizer will turn your complicated server logs into easy-to-read analytics. Webalizer is a fast, free web server log analysis program.
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