Hopefully this is in the correct forum.

Anyway, I'm having problems understanding my website statistcs. Here are the ones I don't understand:

Total Hits
Total Files
Total Pages
Total Visits
Total Unique Sites
Total Unique URLs

Are you able to explain which one does what?

Here you go:

Hits are times something is requested. So if you page has a 3 images embedded, it would count as 4 hits.

I suspect Total Files is about the same.

Total Pages is actual page views. This and uniques are the ones you really want to page attention to.

Total visits is the visits to the site. Say you go to Google and search for a few things, and then come back later, that would be two visits.

Total Unique Sites and Unique URLs I'm assuming is referrers. For sites, Google might count as one, but there may be many Google URLs referring.

As I said, it's Uniques and pages that are really important. This tells you how many people are visiting and how long they are sitcking around.

Correct me if I'm wrong on anything here. I know there are answers that are more technical.

I'm guessing you got these from a program such as Webaliser. I find Awstats (Comes with my CPanel) is easier to udnerstand

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Awesome. Much appreciated!

Thanks Peter, i've also had problems with that