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PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 6:46 pm    Post subject: Statistics Correlation Reply with quote

Hey John,

Wanted to know how to interpret unique hosts against popular articles and categories?

Should there be exact match in numbers (total articles accessed) on a specific day and the total distinct hosts for that day?

This may be a dumb questions since technically a visit doesn't mean someone read something.

How are reads counted? Is it based on how many people click the title or "more" links? If so, what if you are publishing full articles and not excerpts?

Thanks!

~Thomas
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 7:06 pm    Post subject: Re: Statistics Correlation Reply with quote

Due to the inherent nature of the web protocol, stats generation is as much an art as science. There is a certain amount of fuzziness with regards to web stats, be it our stats or any other hosting service's stats.

The reason is that, in general, web sites do not require you to tell them who you are up front, so it is often difficult for a web stats program to discern the difference between you sitting in your office at work and your co-worker in the next office. You can appear to be accessing the website from the same IP address as your coworker, so that makes it hard to tell exactly how many people visited your site.

If you're on a dialup connection, you might access the site once in the morning from one IP address and disconnect from your ISP. In the evening you dial up and access the site from the new IP address your ISP provides you, now our web stats program sees those as 2 unique hosts accessing the site....

In the first example, the number of people accessing your site is undercounted, and in the second it is overcounted...

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Should there be exact match in numbers (total articles accessed) on a specific day and the total distinct hosts for that day?


No, there should not. This page should give a little more info on the subject. One host (computer) can access your 5 of your HTML pages for example, or 5 hosts can access one page each...

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How are reads counted? Is it based on how many people click the title or "more" links? If so, what if you are publishing full articles and not excerpts?


We don't use the term reads in our stats. We refer to HTML page views, for example, so an access to your Main Page or to a article page are both counted as page views.

The user manual pages on stats offer additional background, take a look at them and let us know what questions are not answered there.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi John,

Thanks once again for the great support. Your help files are pretty clear. I just wanted to plug a few holes in my logic. Thanks!

~Thomas
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