[thelist] Understanding my stats

[Daniel J. Cody]

Hey Chris -

Everything you asked about in the first email sounds good now that its 
clarrified, and your analysis for the most part sounds good too.. Is 
there anything else you were wondering about?(sorry, still semi-hungover 
from bday bash :)

.djc.

CDitty wrote:

> Anyone?
> 
> At 12:56 PM 1/4/2002, you wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Daniel.
>>
>> Answered you below.
>>
>> At 12:25 PM 1/4/2002, you wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Chris -
>>>
>>> CDitty wrote:
>>>
>>>> have forgotten alot about how this works.  Can someone tell me if my 
>>>> interpretation is correct?
>>>> Unique visitors - 25,707
>>>> Number of visits - 75,234 - 3 visits/visitor
>>>> Pages - 1,216,471 - 16 pages/visit
>>>> Hits - 7,339,708 - (97.55 hits/visit)
>>>>  From what I can remember, Uniques are the most important.  Then 
>>>> comes page views. (atleast that used to be the case.)  Hits is 
>>>> pretty much useless because that is every single request of page, 
>>>> graphics, whatever.
>>>> How am I doing?
>>>
>>>
>>> sounds good so far.. are the above stats for the month?
>>
>>
>> December
>>
>>
>>>> Now, to get the average daily traffic, I divide the figures above by 
>>>> number of days.  This gives me...
>>>> Uniques: 98,873
>>>> Page Views: 46,787
>>>> Visits: 2,893
>>>> Is all this correct?  Are these stats considered good anymore?
>>>
>>>
>>> where are you getting the number of uniques? Above, you have 25,000 
>>> unique vistors, which in an average month would give you just under 
>>> 1000 unique vistors a day(on average)..
>>
>>
>> Uhhh, oops.  Should be 988.73 uniques.   One day I will have to learn 
>> to count. :)