HITS
is the total number of HTTP requests that the
server received during the reporting period. Any request made to the
server is considered a hit. FILES is the number of
hits that actually resulted in something being sent back to the user,
such as an HTML page or image.
The
statistics report contains, among
others the following information:
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the
number of hits, 304's, files, page views, sessions, data sent (in KB)
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the
amount of data requested, transferred, and saved by cache (in KB)
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the number of unique URLs, sites, and
sessions per month
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the
number of all response codes other than 200 (OK)
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the average visits per weekday and for last
week
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the maximum/average hits per day and per
hour
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the
number of hits, files, 304's, sites, data sent by day
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the
top 5 days, 24 hours, 5 minutes and 5 seconds of the summary period
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the
top 30 most commonly accessed URLs (hits, 304's, data sent)
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the
10 least frequently accessed URLs (hits, 304's, data sent)
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the
top 30 client domains accessing your server most often
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the
top 30 browser types
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the top 30 referrer hosts
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the
overview/detailed list of all files requested
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the
overview/detailed list of all sites by domain and reverse domain
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the
overview/detailed list of all browser types
-
the overview/detailed list of all referrer
URLs
The following table
summarizes the meaning of all terms in the statistics report which are
not self-explaining:
Hits
A hit
is any response from the server on behalf of a request sent from a
browser. This includes any response from the server, not only text
files or documents. If, for example, a HTML page has two images
embedded, the server generates three hits if this page is requested:
one hit for the HTML page itself and two hits for the two inline
images.
Files
If the user requests a document and the server successfully sends back
a file for this request, this is counted as a Code 200 (OK) response.
Any such response is counted for as a file. Again, "file" here means
any kind of a file.
Code
304
A Code
304 (Not Modified) response is generated by the server if a document
hasn't been updated since the last time it was requested by the user
and therefore there was no need to actually send the files for this
document.
Page
Views
Page Views are all files which either have a text file suffix (.html,
.text) or which are directory index files. This number allows to estimate the number of
"real" documents transmitted by your server.
If defined correctly, the analyzer rates text files (documents) as
pageviews. Those pageviews do not include images, CGI scripts, Java
applets or any other HTML objects except all files ending with one of
the pre-defined pageview suffixes, such as .html or .text.
Unique
URLs
Unique
URLs are the number of all different, valid URLs requested in a given
summary period. This shows you the number of all different files
requested at least once in the corresponding summary period.
Unique
sites
This is
the sum of all unique hosts accessing the server during a given
time-window . The time-window is hardwired to the length of the current
month. This means that if a host accesses your server very often, it
gets counted only once during the whole month. Only the sum of the
unique hosts per month is listed in the statistics report.
Sessions
Similar
to unique sites, this is the number of unique hosts accessing the
server during a given time-window. This time-window is one day by
default for backward compatibility, but it can be changed with the
option -u or the Session directive in the configuration file. For
example, if the time-window is two hours, all accesses from a certain
host in less than 2 hours after the first access from this host are
lumped together into one session. All following accesses more than 2
hours apart from the first access will be counted as a new session.
This way you may get an estimated number of how many sessions are
started on different sites to access your server.
