What is a hit?
A hit is counted when the server sends a file to a computer that has made a request for that file.

The number of hits your site receives can be misleading, a more understandable count is the number of requests for pages. In this count a page with five images is counted as one request.

General Statistics
The table gives a general overview of your site's activity. These statistics help you quickly determine the growth and the needs of your site. The table shows the date and time the report was generated, as well as the time frame for the report.

The number of hits for the home page is the number of actual successful hits for the HTML document that is your home page, not including any graphics on the page.

The total number of hits are all the successful hits including HTML pages, pictures, forms, scripts and files downloaded. The Canada, International and Unknown sections summarize the origin of your users in percentages of hits.

The Average Hits per Day and Average User Sessions per Day are the average number of successful hits and user sessions your site has had on any given day for the report period.

Most Requested Pages
This section identifies the most popular pages on your site, and can help you determine which pages are viewed the most for advertising, billing, promotional or design purposes.

The number of views includes only the successful hits for the HTML page itself. It does not include any hits for graphics, audio or video files. The percentage of total views is the percentage of hits for that document compared to all other HTML documents.

Least Requested Pages
This section identifies the least popular pages on your Web site. The number of views only includes the successful hits for the HTML page itself. It does not include any hits for graphics. The percentage of total views is the percentage of hits for that document compared to all other HTML documents.

What is a host?
A host is a computer that has requested a file from your web site.

What is a domain?
Domains are unique names on the world wide web.

Technically, the domain is the last two, three or four letters (.com, .org, .net, .edu, .ca, .fr, .au, etc.) and the whole thing (gowebtide.com) is called the domain name . But when people ask what your domain is they most likely mean the domain name.

.com	commercial		.biz	new suffix
.org	organization (commercial also)		.md	new suffix for medical organizations
.net	network		.tv	new suffix
.edu	educational (mainly USA)		.pro	new suffix
.ca	canada		.name	new suffix
.fr	france		.info	new suffix

Country domains are two letter domains.

Top Entry Pages
This section identifies the pages users first saw when they entered this site. This is most likely your home page but, in some cases, it may also be specific URLs that users enter to access a particular page directly. For example, if a user enters http://www.gowebtide.com/topdog.html, she would "enter" at the topdog.html page.

The percentages refer to the total number of user sessions that started with a valid Document Type. If the session started on a documen with a different type (such as a graphic or sound file), the file is not be counted as an Entry Page, and the session is not counted in the total.

Such sessions are often the product of other sites referencing a specific downloadable file or graphic for example on your site. In such cases, a sessions may have a single hit to a non-document type file, and will not be counted for the percentage calculations.

Top Exit Pages
This section identifies the most common pages users were on when they left your site. The percentages refer to the total number of user sessions that started with a valid Document Type. If the session started on a document with a different type (such as a graphic or sound file), the file is not be counted as an Entry Page, and the session is not counted in the total.

Such sessions are often the product of other sites referencing a specific downloadable file or graphic for example on your site. In such cases, a sessions may have a single hit to a non-document type file, and will not be counted for the percentage calculations.

Single Access Pages
This section identifies the pages on your Web site that visitors access and exit without viewing any other page. This demonstrates where visitors enter and leave immediately. This information can be helpful when considering the design of your Web site or when ascertaining the quality of visitors to your site.

The percentages refer to the total number of user sessions that started with a valid Document Type. If the session started on a document with a different type (such as a graphic or sound file), the file is not be counted as an Entry Page, and the session is not counted in the total

Top Paths Through Site
This section identifies the paths people most often follow when accessing your Web site. The path begins at the page of entry and shows the next six consecutive pages viewed. The information contained in this table can help with the redesign and ongoing maintenance of your Web site.

Levels of activity are measured by day, by day of week and by hour of day

Activity by Day
This section outlines general server activity, comparing the level of activity on weekdays and weekends. This table also lists the most and least active days of the week, the most and least active days of the report period, and the number of hits for each. Values in the table do not include erred hits. This table is useful for determining the best day of the week to perform system maintenance.

Activity Level by Day of Week
This section shows the activity for each day of the week for the report period (i.e. if there are two Mondays in the report period, the value presented is the sum of all hits for both Mondays.) The table lists the number of hits, percentage of total hits and user sessions for each day of the week for the report period. The Total Weekdays line indicates the number of hits occurring Monday through Friday for the report period. The Total Weekends line indicates the number of hits occurring Saturday and Sunday for the report period. The values in this table do not include erred hits.

Activity Level by Hour of Day
This section shows the most and the least active hour of the day for the report period. The second table breaks down activity for the given report period to show the average activity for each individual hour of the day (if there are several days in the report period, the value presented is the sum of all hits during that period of time for all days). The table lists the percentage of total hits and user sessions, as well as the totals for work hours (8:00am - 5:00pm) and after hours (5:01pm - 7:59am). This information is useful in determining what hour of the day is best for system maintenance.

Technical Statistics and Analysis
This section is useful in determining the reliability of your site. This table shows the total number of hits for the site, how many were successful, how many failed, and calculates the percentage of hits that failed. Failed hits are hits where a server or client error occurred. Cached hits are those where the page was found in the cache of the browser, so the server did not need to transfer the file.

Most Downloaded Files Types and Sizes
This section identifies the download file types and the total kilobytes downloaded for each file type. Cached requests and erred hits are excluded from the totals. The table lists the types of files downloaded in decreasing order of the number of file downloads, and gives for each type the number of kilobytes transferred.

Top Referring Sites
This section identifies the domain names or numeric IP addresses with links to your site. The table shows the Domain names if reverse DNS lookups have been performed. This information will only be displayed if your server is logging this information.

Top Referring URLs
This section provides the full URLs of the sites with links to your site. The table shows the Domain names if reverse DNS lookups have been performed, and IP addresses if not. This information will only be displayed if your server is logging the referrer information, and doesn't include visitors who typed in your URL.

Most Using Browsers
This section identifies the most popular WWW Browsers used by visitors to your site.

Netscape Browsers
This section gives you a breakdown of the various versions of Netscape browsers that visitors to your site are using. This is useful in determining the percentage of visitors using newer browsers and whether version- specific features (such as Java Scripts) should be implemented on your site. This information will only be displayed if your server is logging the browser/platform information.

Microsoft Browsers
This section gives you a breakdown of the various versions of Microsoft Explorer browsers that visitors to your site are using. This is useful in determining the percentage of visitors using newer browsers and whether version specific features (such as Java Scripts) should be implemented on your site. This information will only be displayed if your server is logging the browser/platform information.

Visiting Spiders
This section identifies all robots, spiders, crawlers and search services (i.e. Alta Vista, Lycos, and Excite) visiting your site. This information is important for a Webmaster trying to block spiders that tax the server. This information will only be displayed if your server is logging the browser/platform information.

Most Used Platforms
This section identifies the operating systems most used by the visitors to your Web site.

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