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Informational reports regarding visits to your
web site can be obtained from the Usage
Statistics page. The graphical reports are
generated each night from your virtual server's
access logs. Up to 12 months of historic usage
statistics are available.
Summary
A summary of your web site's usage over the entire
period in both graphical and tabular formats. This
is the report shown when you first access the
statistics page, click on a month title in the
table to obtain in depth statistics for that
month.
The resulting monthly report contains the
following sections. Note that some sections may be
absent if no data to populate them exists.
Daily Summary
A summary of your web site's usage for each day of
the month displayed graphically and
numerically.
Hourly Summary
A summary of your web site's usage for each hour of
the day displayed graphically and numerically.
Request Report
Shows the number of times each file on your web
site has been requested over the entire month. Two
request reports are shown with files ranked firstly
by hits and then by data transfer.
Entry Pages
Shows the pages visitors use to enter your web site
ranked by visits.
Exit Pages
Shows the pages visitors use to leave your web site
ranked by visits.
Referrers Report
Shows the pages visitors were referred from to get
to your site ranked by hits. This normally means
the user clicked a link on this page to get to your
site. Common referrers include links from another
web site to your own, links to your site from a
browsers 'Favorites' list, and links from search
engine results that have indexed your site. A large
percentage of referrers will also be your own web
pages, which naturally carry links to other areas
of your site, these referrers are excluded from the
report.
Search String Report
Shows the search keywords which were used to find
your site on search engines. Note that if there are
no referrals from search engines this report will
not be shown.
User Agent Report
Shows the types of web browser used to view your
site ranked by visits.
Throughout the reports, the parameters listed
have the following meanings.
Hits
Any request made to the server which is logged, is
considered a 'hit'. Each valid line in the server
log is counted as a hit. This number represents the
total number of requests that were made to the
server during the specified report period.
Files
Any request made to the server which actually
resulted in something being sent back to the user
is counted as a file. Not all hits will send data,
such as 404 Not Found requests and requests for
pages that are already in the browser's cache.
Pages
Any request made to the server for an actual page,
and not all of the individual items that make it up
(such as images and audio clips). This can also be
termed as page views or page impressions. A page is
deemed to be any file with one of the following
extensions: .htm, .html, .cgi, .php, .pl, .shtml,
.asp.
Visits
A visits occurs when a remote site (IP address)
requests a page on the server for the first time.
As long as the same site keeps making requests
within the timeout period of 30 minutes they will
all be considered part of the same Visit. If the
site makes a request to your site, and the length
of time since the last request is greater than the
timeout period of 30 minutes, a new Visit is
started and counted, and the sequence repeats.
KBytes
This value shows the amount of data that was
transfered between the server and the remote
machine, based on the information found in the
server log.
Sites
Each request made to the server comes from a unique
site, which can be determined by a name or an IP
address. The value shows how many unique IP
addresses made requests to the server during the
reporting time period.
Note that usage statistics are compiled each
night between 00:00 and 04:00 GMT, you will
therefore only see full statistics up to the
previous day.
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