Monitor your site activity
Monitor the performance of your site by visiting "Site" in the top menu bar and "View Site Activity" on the drop down menu. You'll see which pages are the most visited ones and how many sessions and hits you had.
But what gives you more valuable information - sessions or hits?
HITS Dictionary.com defines "hits" as: "a connection made to a website over the Internet or another network." This is actually quite vague. A "hit" is actually a "successful request to your web server from a visitor's browser for any type of file, whether an image, HTML page, an MP3 file, or any other type. A single web page can cause many Hits -- one for each image included on the page, etc." ² Therefore, if a single web page contains 20 images, that's 21 hits - 20 images plus 1 for the page itself. If one single person looks at 10 web pages which contains 20 images on each page, that single individual is responsible for 210 hits. SESSIONS "Unique visitors" or "sessions" is the best method of measuring traffic ("pageviews" is another, but we'll talk about that later). Urchin defines "sessions" as "a series of clicks on your site by an individual visitor during a specific period of time. A Session is initiated when the visitor arrives at your site, and it ends when the browser is closed or there is a period of inactivity." This method is a good way to know how much real traffic your site is getting. If a website says "we get 2,000 sessions per day", that's impressive. But if that say "we get 2,000 hits per day", you just can't be sure. |