:-) I'll offer both (semi-) technical and emotional support.
> � Successful requests: 3,645 (What does this number refer to? I notice
> there is also "successful requests for pages", "distinct files requested".
> What is the difference? How is the number calculated? Does one refer to
> the homepage only and the other the homepages plus the pages within the
> site?)
*Requests* are any files requested and served. *Pages* are whatever you define
as pages, based on the extension of the files. This is ... you know, I'm not
sure of the default, but .htm and .html are pages, while .gif and .jpeg, for
instance, are not pages (but they're still requests.)
You can eliminate all the graphics requests using FILEEXCLUDE (or you can simply
restrict the whole game to just a couple of types using FILEINCLUDE). You can
affect what requests are considered pages by using PAGEINCLUDE.
> � Average successful requests per day: 558
> � Successful requests for pages: 440 (This number is so far from being
> 3,645...I have no idea where this number comes from! How is this different
> from the "successful requests"?)
Betcha your pages have lots and lots of graphics, don't they?
> � Average successful requests for pages per day: 67
> � Failed requests: 36
> � Distinct files requested: 116 (What is this?)
The actual number of different files requested. So if mypicture.gif is
requested 1500 times out of the several thousand, it gets counted once on this
line.
> � Distinct hosts served: 162 (Is this how many people log on to the site
> from different hosts? As in AOL, Mindspring, Ameritech...are those the
> "distinct hosts"?)
Yep, this is the actual number of IP addresses which connected to your server.
The problem with this number is that AOL uses about ten IP addresses. So if
15,000 AOLers hit your site, it looks like 10 people.
> Here...it appears that this is a breakdown of the "Successful Requests"
> stated in the General Information. So, by looking at it, I cannot really
> tell which of the pages was accessed the most since it is counting all the
> requests that were successful...and not just the page requests. Correct?
Correct.
> What I am looking for is where to look for the information that shows how
> many people visited my Web site. There are so many numbers that don't agree
> with one another...that I am not sure which one to look at!
You'd think it would be easy to figure that out, wouldn't you? Unfortunately,
the Web infrastructure really isn't set up to track things like "individual
people" or "visits" -- it's set up to distribute files from one computer to
another, and that's what gets logged.
> Thanks for all your help! I am new to this...and if you could put your
> replies in the most "basic" english as possible...it would help me greatly!
Hope my attempt helped.
Michael
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