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In soc.culture.jewish on 11 Jul 1997 13:27:14 GMT
dennis....@lerc.nasa.gov (Dennis Thompson) posted:


>>++Well, there is a big difference between "hits" and "users". The former
>>++represents one object sent from the webserver, the latter, more or
>>++less unmeasurable period. If you land on a web page that has, for
>>++example, 3 images and a visitor-counter, then you've just racked up the
>>++following hits:
>>++
>>++1: for the html doc itself
>>++3: one for each image
>>++1: for the counter script
>>++
>>++= 5 "hits"
>>
>>no, this is not the way hits are counted. Only hits of the html doc itself
>>are used.
>>

>"Hit" counters can work several ways, but most of the ones out there now 
>automatically correct for multiple hits from a user, by virtue of the way 
>that browsers work. The typical web counter increments the count when your 
>browser requests an image from the web page. This is usually the "odometer" 
>image that shows hits, but it can be just any small graphic. 

>Now, when you go to another page and come back, your request for that image is 
>filled from the cache on your machine, so it does NOT add another hit to the 
>counter. If you have no caching, or if it filled when you were off the page, 
>you would register a second hit when you returned.

>I work for NASA, but I am not sure what counters we use. The most 
>sophisticated counters are very comprehensive programs that track the specific 
>user through the site and compile statistics on where the hits are coming 
>from, what pages you visited, how many times you revisit a particular page, 
>etc. These types of advanced counters track repeat hits. How they are reported 
>is up to the site administrator.

>Dennis Thompson

I enjoyed your post.  It is clear that this is complicated and
variable like everything else these days..  I suspect the site
administrators for the mars pictures must be chagrined to hear stories
of 100 million Americans viewing the pictures when there are fewer
than 20 million with net access.  (Of course everyone could invite
people to his terminal so that all could watch at once!)

P&M


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