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12-04-07, 08:06 AM
I'm running stats on a website I do some work on and I got some strange results, was wondering if someone has a simple explanation.
We're running Google Analytics along with Webstats, here's some data from November:
Item......................................................Accesses..................Bytes........... ..........Visits
All Files Served: ............................... 4,724,063.........58,747,462,127..............235,937
Page Views:..........................................125,333...........1,676,860,277...............229,54 6
Unique Visitors: (Best Method)...........144,629
Home Page Views:.................................31,024...............472,564,360................17,796
Executive Summary
144,629 unique visitors came to the site, as determined by typical behavior of browsers with a non-rotating IP address and including a projection of the true number of visitors with rotating IP addresses.
The web site received 235,937 visits. A typical visitor examined 12.45 distinct files before leaving the site. A typical visit lasted for 2.61 minutes. The longest visit lasted for 1,439 minutes.
The web server was visited by 113 distinct users accepting cookies, as determined by individual user-identifying "cookies" received at least twice.
Visitors came from 376,465 distinct Internet addresses.
The web server delivered 14,607 unique documents one or more times each.
Compared to:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2113/2086811066_196ec72d7e.jpg
According to two banners that haven't changed over the last period, between 116,000 and 119,000 times respectively that those two banners were accessed over the same amount of time
1) According to webstats how could there be MORE unique visitors than page views?
2) What number would you use to report impressions? 144k, 125k, or 103k?
3) How many hits would you say the homepage gets? 31k, 17.7k, or 15k?
If there are other statistical packages you think might be better let me know too, webstats seems to double talk in a really confusing way (even their definitions change from page to page).
Thanks!
We're running Google Analytics along with Webstats, here's some data from November:
Item......................................................Accesses..................Bytes........... ..........Visits
All Files Served: ............................... 4,724,063.........58,747,462,127..............235,937
Page Views:..........................................125,333...........1,676,860,277...............229,54 6
Unique Visitors: (Best Method)...........144,629
Home Page Views:.................................31,024...............472,564,360................17,796
Executive Summary
144,629 unique visitors came to the site, as determined by typical behavior of browsers with a non-rotating IP address and including a projection of the true number of visitors with rotating IP addresses.
The web site received 235,937 visits. A typical visitor examined 12.45 distinct files before leaving the site. A typical visit lasted for 2.61 minutes. The longest visit lasted for 1,439 minutes.
The web server was visited by 113 distinct users accepting cookies, as determined by individual user-identifying "cookies" received at least twice.
Visitors came from 376,465 distinct Internet addresses.
The web server delivered 14,607 unique documents one or more times each.
Compared to:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2113/2086811066_196ec72d7e.jpg
According to two banners that haven't changed over the last period, between 116,000 and 119,000 times respectively that those two banners were accessed over the same amount of time
1) According to webstats how could there be MORE unique visitors than page views?
2) What number would you use to report impressions? 144k, 125k, or 103k?
3) How many hits would you say the homepage gets? 31k, 17.7k, or 15k?
If there are other statistical packages you think might be better let me know too, webstats seems to double talk in a really confusing way (even their definitions change from page to page).
Thanks!