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  • 21-06-2005 2:00pm
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    jjmax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 240 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I've recently put up my first website.
    I was looking through the stats, and I'm getting 30 hits a day apparently.
    Does this mean 30 people are visiting my site a day, or is one person clicking on links in my site 30 times?
    I haven't promoted the site at all either, bar on a few business cards and letterheads. Could a lot of the hits my site's been getting be from Web-bots (or whatever)?
    Cheers for any input.


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    A hit is not a visitor
    A hit is simply a HTTP request for an element on your site, be that a html file, image or other script.

    Most stats analysers should be able to give you the number of unique visitors etc.

    Blog | Tweets



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    Miss Polaris
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭Miss Polaris


    try Statcounter www.statcounter.com on your site - its free and gives excellent stats on your visitors.


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    nahdoic
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭nahdoic


    thanks for the recommendation Miss Polaris :)

    (I hope you liked the recent tweaks and getting rid of the banner and pop up advertising)


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    #5
    jjmax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 240 ✭✭jjmax


    cheers people


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    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    i looked up statcounter, they stick a horribly image on your site thou :-(
    does anyone know of any free statcounters who leave your website layout alone and just provide you with the stats? just the stats!


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    nahdoic
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭nahdoic


    huh!?

    We off ther most configurable hit counter in the world as well as the option to configure it to be completely invisible. Login to your account, click the wrench icon beside your project name and click "configure counter".

    regards,

    Aodhan.


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    hostyle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭hostyle


    Rollo Tamasi wrote:
    i looked up statcounter, they stick a horribly image on your site thou :-(
    does anyone know of any free statcounters who leave your website layout alone and just provide you with the stats? just the stats!

    How exactly do you think they, as a third party, manage to collect statistics from your domain? They need to stick something on every page (or analyse your logs but you can detect more by making your own). If it bothers you so much, reduce it to 0px width and height or hide it with CSS. Or write your own stats package :)


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    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    well they could just provide you with the code to copy and paste onto your site instead of giving you an image


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    Rollo Tamasi wrote:
    well they could just provide you with the code to copy and paste onto your site instead of giving you an image
    Em. They do.
    Have a look at my blog (http://www.mneylon.com/blog)
    I'm using statcounter on it and you won't see any image of any kind on it

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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Rollo, do yourself a favour and save the criticism for when you actually know what you're talking about.

    adam


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