what are hits?

rhino56

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like you will see soething in stats of sites like pages, visitors and hits is always like 10000000x more than anything
 

KLin

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A questionable measure of web site traffic. Count one hit each time a browser request is made from a web server. For example, a page containing 5 images counts 6 hits each time it is viewed (once for each image and once for the page itself). Page views are a much better way to measure traffic.
http://www.montereynet.net/Knowlg_Rsrcs/Glossary.html
 

rhino56

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Originally posted by: KLin
A questionable measure of web site traffic. Count one hit each time a browser request is made from a web server. For example, a page containing 5 images counts 6 hits each time it is viewed (once for each image and once for the page itself). Page views are a much better way to measure traffic.
http://www.montereynet.net/Knowlg_Rsrcs/Glossary.html
cool, i was just curious as it was something i had no idea what could be that many.


 

Mo0o

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Originally posted by: KLin
A questionable measure of web site traffic. Count one hit each time a browser request is made from a web server. For example, a page containing 5 images counts 6 hits each time it is viewed (once for each image and once for the page itself). Page views are a much better way to measure traffic.
http://www.montereynet.net/Knowlg_Rsrcs/Glossary.html

That's not true... some counters make sure to only count unique visits by different IPs
 

KLin

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Originally posted by: Mo0o
Originally posted by: KLin
A questionable measure of web site traffic. Count one hit each time a browser request is made from a web server. For example, a page containing 5 images counts 6 hits each time it is viewed (once for each image and once for the page itself). Page views are a much better way to measure traffic.
http://www.montereynet.net/Knowlg_Rsrcs/Glossary.html

That's not true... some counters make sure to only count unique visits by different IPs

If only some do it by IP, then how does it make the definition untrue?