120 million?!

[Bob The Mercenary]

I ran a search for www.nuklearpower.com on alexia.com and found that it's the 13469th popular site on the net. It also showed in a graph that NP gets about 120 million hits (a day?). Is that accurate?

Here's the link (http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=http://www.nuklearpower.com/)

[Patrat]

Maybe, i think the results show how many times people just go there. Like I'll exit the forums for a little bit, but not for long becuase i normally just go back on to see if anything is new. It might also tally refreshing. But again, these are just hypothesis.

[Zweihander]

Go to the Who's Online page for this forum. Notice that only the first page or so has actual users, the rest being Google or Jeeves spiders.

And no patrat, these things tally via IP address. I think. At any rate, you refreshing or just leaving it alone and coming back in fifteen minutes does not count as another "hit."

Fun fact: Alexia makes spyware! Tons of it! How nice is that. How do you think they got this info, anyway?

[Kurosen]

Alexa.com results are a to be taken with a grain of salt. It's more useful for projecting overall tendencies across vast spans of time than accurately tracking a site's traffic at any specific point. Take nuklearpower.com for example. Some of the severe troughs reported by Alexa.com in NP.com's history never actually existed according to stats from our own servers. But Alexa.com does accurately show the "overall" growth of NP.com over the years if you consider the mean line between all the highs and lows: i.e. NP.com keeps getting more popular.

[Totsumanu]

Can someone tell me what the difference is between a visit, page and a hit in web statistics? Seems that I can't find definitions on this in plain English. Plus I am not sure which one is important, because some website say "1 gazillion hits a day!" now does that really mean anything or are they just blowing smoke out their ass? Yes, I get a lot of "hits" on my site but my visits are a LOT lower then my hit. Someone please explain this to me.

[Bob The Mercenary]

My mass media teacher actually explained this on Tuesday. He said that a hit was an i.p. connecting to the site or one of its linked pages. A visit was an i.p. hitting the site and actually exploring it. Clicking on links and going to different parts of the site.

[Kurosen]

Generally "unique visitors" are individual people. Their browsing generates "hits" which is whenever someone's computer downloads information from a server. So, my main page, for example, will get something like a dozen "hits" for one "unique visitor" because that one person is going to download the code that makes the page, the info from the database for the most recent news update, all the graphics, the ads, etc.

The only typically important stat is the number of unique visitors. I may get 120 million "hits", but those are being made by less than 100,000 people.

[Totsumanu]

The "unique visitors" was the only one I knew for sure. At least that number on my sites is the one jumps up the most. Thanks for all the info.