Hits: any call to a page and all its framed content boxes,
scripts, gifs, jpgs, will be recorded as hits (if a page has 2
javascript files embedded, 3 gifs, 4 boxes as frames in the
page, and a main content, then a call to this page is
considered as 10 hits)
Page views: Any page viewed and refreshed for any reason 3
times will be considered as 4 views during the day (how to
take care of this)
visits: Any number of visits made by the same IP address
will be considered as different visits (how do we solve this?)
See the example data of a visit summarized from a web log
file:
The visit is coming from California, pointed by
VPN.McGill.CA (meant McGill University in Ontorio, Canada),
based on IP address. The person was searching for
references with key words, Hair, cluster, Centroids, and the
above article is 5th ranked among 227k referred pages and the
person clicke on it.
The
key intelligence is to understand when to say the same person
is visiting, how to connect his/her visits to hard sales data
so that the site management could be optimizing the site, when
to optimize the site, and what will optimize the site.
Again in summary we will provide information
on the following: A comparison of this with HITBOX will
be provided upon request.
(crmportals@gmail.com
with subject title: Request for AWStats vs. HITBOX
comparison)
* Number of Visits, and number of Unique
visitors.
* Visit duration and latest visits.
* Authenticated Users, and latest
authenticated visits.
* Usage by Months, Days of week and Hours of
the day (pages, hits, KB).
* Domains/countries (and regions, cities and
ISP with
Maxmind proprietary geo databases)
of visitor's hosts (pages, hits, KB,
269 domains/countries detected
).
* Hosts list, latest visits and unresolved IP
addresses list.
* Most viewed, Entry and Exit pages.
* Most commonly requested File types.
* Web Compression statistics (for Apache
servers using mod_gzip or mod_deflate modules).
* Visitor's Browsers (pages, hits, KB for each
browser, each version,
123 browsers
detected: Web, Wap,
Streaming Media browsers..., around
482
with the "phone browsers"
database).
* Visitor's Operating Systems (pages, hits, KB
for each OS,
45 OS detected).
* Robots visits, including search engine
crawlers (
381
robots detected).
* Search engines, Keywords and Phrases used to
find your site (
The
122 most famous search engines are detected like Yahoo, Google,
Altavista, etc...)
* HTTP Errors (Page Not Found with latest
referrer, ...).
* User defined reports based on url, url
parameters, referrer (referer) fields extend AWStats'
capabilities to provide even
greater technical and marketing information.
* Number of times your site is added to
Bookmarks / Favorites.
* Screen size (to capture this, some HTML tags
must be added to a site's home page).
* Ratio of integrated Browser Support for:
Java, Flash, Real G2 player, Quicktime reader, PDF reader, WMA
reader (as
above, requires insertion of HTML tags in
site's home page).