Hi Guys,
Any one of you explain me what Hits mean?
Thanks in advance for your help. Here ya go ...
Quote: Define: hit
As used in reference to the World Wide Web, hit means a single request from a web browser for a single item from a web server; thus in order for a web browser to display a page that contains 3 graphics, 4 hits would occur at the server: 1 for the HTML page, and one for each of the 3 graphics. Hits are often used as a very rough measure of load on a server, e.g. Our server has been getting 300,000 hits per month. Because each hit can represent anything from a request for a tiny document (or even a request for a missing document) all the way to a request that requires some significant extra processing (such as a complex search request), the actual load on a machine from 1 hit is almost impossible to define.
cpmcnet.columbia.edu/computers/html/glossary.html Thanks for fast response. But bit difficult to understand for a beginner.
If someone click on my website url and visit three pages -- how many hits? Or say when i see my Awstats it shows 40 hits from Australia what does it mean? The definition above is probably the most accurate.
In general though most webmasters use the term "hits" to refer to the number of pageloads.
For example "Google.com gets 1 000 0000 hits" translates to "Google get's 1 million pageloads".
You can look at which page on your site get's more "hits" (i.e. pageloads), etc.
Skinny Here's another definition of a hit.
Quote: Hit: In the context of visitors to web pages, a hit (or site hit) is a single access request made to the server for either a text file or a graphic. If, for example, a web page contains ten buttons constructed from separate images, a single visit from someone using a web browser with graphics switched on (a "page view") will involve eleven hits on the server.
In the context of a search engine query, a hit is a measure of the number of web pages matching a query returned by a search engine or directory. Thank you for the nice suggestions
thanks a lot , about defination of hit or hits simply
request from browse to server, text or graffic.
what if i press a button to hear music, is it also a hit? It is a server side event triggered by a user's action on a web page .Hits can be used to measure traffic on a web page . Every "call" from your browser to the server is a hit. It would be impossible for us to give you a clear number of "exact" hits for a page we don't know about since each page is different.
If your page for example has a CSS style sheet, an external java file, 2 graphics, and another file, you would see 5 "calls" (hits) from your browser to the server to retrieve those files. However, since a call was also made by the browser to show the page, you would get 6 "calls" to that server.
Now, to get a little bit more accurate, each of those files that were called by the browser to be shown on the page might also have "calls" to different files on the server within them. For example, your CSS style sheet might have background images shown for certain classes. So, a call to those images would need to be made.
So, think of a hit as a request from your browser to the server to get something. Hits is the traffic that you drive into your site from your never ending link building task. Quote: Originally Posted by Webcont247365
Thanks for fast response. But bit difficult to understand for a beginner.
If someone click on my website url and visit three pages -- how many hits? Or say when i see my Awstats it shows 40 hits from Australia what does it mean? It will count 3 hits and 1 unique visitor. When you check out your hosting statistics applications, you will notice of the hits and visits reported everyday on your server.
Hits might not be as important as the visits though. Which user visit your site through clicking your reference sites.This method is hits.
Any one of you explain me what Hits mean?
Thanks in advance for your help. Here ya go ...
Quote: Define: hit
As used in reference to the World Wide Web, hit means a single request from a web browser for a single item from a web server; thus in order for a web browser to display a page that contains 3 graphics, 4 hits would occur at the server: 1 for the HTML page, and one for each of the 3 graphics. Hits are often used as a very rough measure of load on a server, e.g. Our server has been getting 300,000 hits per month. Because each hit can represent anything from a request for a tiny document (or even a request for a missing document) all the way to a request that requires some significant extra processing (such as a complex search request), the actual load on a machine from 1 hit is almost impossible to define.
cpmcnet.columbia.edu/computers/html/glossary.html Thanks for fast response. But bit difficult to understand for a beginner.
If someone click on my website url and visit three pages -- how many hits? Or say when i see my Awstats it shows 40 hits from Australia what does it mean? The definition above is probably the most accurate.
In general though most webmasters use the term "hits" to refer to the number of pageloads.
For example "Google.com gets 1 000 0000 hits" translates to "Google get's 1 million pageloads".
You can look at which page on your site get's more "hits" (i.e. pageloads), etc.
Skinny Here's another definition of a hit.
Quote: Hit: In the context of visitors to web pages, a hit (or site hit) is a single access request made to the server for either a text file or a graphic. If, for example, a web page contains ten buttons constructed from separate images, a single visit from someone using a web browser with graphics switched on (a "page view") will involve eleven hits on the server.
In the context of a search engine query, a hit is a measure of the number of web pages matching a query returned by a search engine or directory. Thank you for the nice suggestions
request from browse to server, text or graffic.
what if i press a button to hear music, is it also a hit? It is a server side event triggered by a user's action on a web page .Hits can be used to measure traffic on a web page . Every "call" from your browser to the server is a hit. It would be impossible for us to give you a clear number of "exact" hits for a page we don't know about since each page is different.
If your page for example has a CSS style sheet, an external java file, 2 graphics, and another file, you would see 5 "calls" (hits) from your browser to the server to retrieve those files. However, since a call was also made by the browser to show the page, you would get 6 "calls" to that server.
Now, to get a little bit more accurate, each of those files that were called by the browser to be shown on the page might also have "calls" to different files on the server within them. For example, your CSS style sheet might have background images shown for certain classes. So, a call to those images would need to be made.
So, think of a hit as a request from your browser to the server to get something. Hits is the traffic that you drive into your site from your never ending link building task. Quote: Originally Posted by Webcont247365
Thanks for fast response. But bit difficult to understand for a beginner. If someone click on my website url and visit three pages -- how many hits? Or say when i see my Awstats it shows 40 hits from Australia what does it mean? It will count 3 hits and 1 unique visitor. When you check out your hosting statistics applications, you will notice of the hits and visits reported everyday on your server.
Hits might not be as important as the visits though. Which user visit your site through clicking your reference sites.This method is hits.