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posted by The Inside Dope @ 1/06/2006
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2 Comments:
Congratulations!!! What a great achievement. Just wondering what a visitor to the site is. Is it broken down by the amount of people on the site or is it just the same 6 people going back and forth.
Thanks!!
Anon,
I'm glad you asked that question, as I've been curious about exactly how the counter defines a "visit" myself for some time. Your question finally got me to go back and try to recall exactly how the count works.
I'd always known that the counter tracks what it calls "unique visitors" I thought that meant that it only counts visits from the same computer once in say, a day's time. What I didn't know is how long a time period went by before it would count that same computer again.
After all, I didn't imagine that over 50,000 completely DIFFERENT people had visited the page. I just figured that perhaps it reset each day at midnight or something but I've never been sure.
Your question got me to finally take the time to search around to see if I could find out exactly how it works. Here's how the counter service explains it:
"Site Meter tracks "page views" and "visits". You may also have heard the term "hits". When someone comes to your site, they generate a "hit" for every piece of content that is sent to their computer. Viewing a single web site page would generate one hit for the page and one hit for every individual graphics file that was on the page. A single page could easily generate a dozen or more hits.
When you are browsing a site, every time you follow a link, it is treated as a single "page view".
Site Meter defines a "visit" as a series of page views by one person with no more than 30 minutes in between page views."
So there you are. The answer to your question is yes and no. Yes, it does count the same visitors more than once, but no, it's not just a handful going back and forth.
It doesn't count a visit by the same person as another visit unless they have been off the site completely for more than a half an hour.
And of course, it's set up to specifically ignore visits from my computer so they're not included in the total.
There. Now we both know.
By the way, if it were the "same 6 people" generating all the traffic, all 6 would have had to have visited the site over 8,334 times, or more than once an hour, 24 hours a day, since the blog was launched.
(The Inside Dope has averaged one visit every 7-8 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week since it's launch on Feb. 14, 2005)
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