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pine · 01-02-2003, 01:15 PM

OK, I am not as dumb as this question might make me appear...maybe close. When you talk about a "hit" on a website, can you quantify that?

Does it mean a surfer has clicked on xxx.com or...
Does it mean xxx.com served a file of some type to the surfer?

I ask this because I'm parsing raw logfiles...once I have a graphical display to look at, I see under the "website hits" category a figure in the 30k range. However, this translates into about 300 individual, or "unique" surfers when viewing by IP addresses. So, to me this says "On average, each surfer has generated HTTP requests of about 1000 files". And this can be anything from a thumbnailed .jpg to the actual .html page itself.

Is this how certain webmasters can claim to have, like, 500k "hits" in a day? Or do they actually have half-a-million live individual surfers hit their pages?

01-02-2003, 01:15 PM
pine Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Falls, eh Posts: 1,373	Dumbest...question...EVER: What's a "hit"? OK, I am not as dumb as this question might make me appear...maybe close. When you talk about a "hit" on a website, can you quantify that? Does it mean a surfer has clicked on xxx.com or... Does it mean xxx.com served a file of some type to the surfer? I ask this because I'm parsing raw logfiles...once I have a graphical display to look at, I see under the "website hits" category a figure in the 30k range. However, this translates into about 300 individual, or "unique" surfers when viewing by IP addresses. So, to me this says "On average, each surfer has generated HTTP requests of about 1000 files". And this can be anything from a thumbnailed .jpg to the actual .html page itself. Is this how certain webmasters can claim to have, like, 500k "hits" in a day? Or do they actually have half-a-million live individual surfers hit their pages?