One of the organizations I volunteer for get hit counts from Go Daddy
for its website (www.rutlandhistory.com http://www.rutlandhistory.com/
).
We are getting about 20,000 hits a month.
How many of these hits can I believe to be searchers, rather than
spiders, etc?
Is there any way to tell?
They probably do include spiders. I have a domain they host as well, but
I've never looked at their analytics tools.
You should look into google analytics, www.google.com/analytics. It's a
free page tag based analytics tool that will give you much richer data than
the log analyzers from
Doesn't matter. Hits are a meaningless metric.
Check out Robert Hoakman's blog posting, Myth of the Magic Metric. as well
as thousands of other articles written about site analytics and the fact
that hits, isn't worth the time it takes to say that one syllable word :-)
Myth of the Magic Metric:
The one exception to that rule...Hits are quite valuable in
determining load capacity and performance planning for infrastructure.
Bryan Minihan
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On Jun 17, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Will Evans wrote:
Doesn't matter. Hits are a meaningless metric.
Check out Robert Hoakman's blog
If you look at the referrer string of each request, if it has a query on it,
like a Google search, then it's probably a person.
Also, the user agent strings of bots tend to identify themselves as bots.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Piotrowski, Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
One of the
One of the organizations I volunteer for get hit counts from Go Daddy
for its website (www.rutlandhistory.com http://www.rutlandhistory.com/
).
If you're actually looking at hits, the number will be totally
meaningless. A hit is any requested file. This can include XML and
Javascript files,
Although...typically most web analytic tools have been set up (either
by default or during installation) to ignore non-layout pages (gif,
jpg, css, js, inc, cgi, etc) and should just return hits
representing single pages. As Robert mentions, though, Google and
other tools do a better job
