[VISITOR STATS] Definition of "Visits" and "Unique Visitors"

Hi there,

I´m just asking myself, how you define "Visits" and "Unique Visitors" in the visitor stats menu? Whats the difference? What do you count? What do you filter?

Would be great if you bring me enlightment

Thanks a lot,
best regards,
Karsten

AFAIK Unique Visitors are the number of inividual computers that have visited your site, and Visits are the number of times those uniques have come, and hits are the number of times a page is viewed.

Quote from: Mark at Jan 30, 2006, 08:17 PM

AFAIK Unique Visitors are the number of inividual computers that have visited your site, and Visits are the number of times those uniques have come, and hits are the number of times a page is viewed.

That would be my definition too... but then...


...how does this magic work?

Probably I simply think in the wrong direction?

Thanks a lot for every thought,
greetings,
Karsten

Hm. I thought visits was how many "site hits", page impressions was how many "page hits", and visitors was how many unique visitors.

I once asked Alex (creator of etomite) what it was and even he told me that the stats are not realy reliable and often gets wrong numbers caused by bots.

we realy need a new sytem

Quote from: Dimmy at Jan 30, 2006, 08:38 PM

I once asked Alex (creator of etomite) what it was and even he told me that the stats are not realy reliable and often gets wrong numbers caused by bots.

Hmmm.. But even if we take the bots into the statistics - shouldn´t the amount of "unique visitors" be at least equal or (more realistic) less than the amount of "visits"?

Quote from: Dimmy at Jan 30, 2006, 08:38 PM

we realy need a new sytem

Is there something in the pipe already?

I really don’t like the built in stats at all... think they’re really not that good. Originally, it was because of how ineffiient they were. Now I’ll add because they don’t make any sense to the list!

I rely on Google Analytics or AWStats myself for statistics, and turn off built in stats. I’m going to start plugging in SlimStats for quick built-in overviews, too.