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| Thread ID: 115039 | 2010-12-29 21:51:00 | Counting web page hits | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 1165531 | 2010-12-29 21:51:00 | I'm doing some analysis of traffic on a website, and a couple of questions occur to me. (1) I've been using Google Analytics, and one of the measures is the Traffic Sources Overview pie chart. That shows x percent as coming from search engines. Is that referring the search engine webcrawlers, or the number of times the site has shown up in search results? (2) If someone has a website set as their home page, does that mean that every time they open the browser it scores a hit? (I assume the answer is yes, but confirmation/denial would be good.) |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1165532 | 2010-12-30 06:35:00 | I use Statcounter with my home pages which allows a blocking cookie to be set, so my own hits don't count. | seltsam (13470) | ||
| 1165533 | 2010-12-30 07:01:00 | For analytics, the "unique" hits is the number of hits that are completely new. never seen in "X" amount of time. | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1165534 | 2010-12-30 07:54:00 | The x for search engines refers to the number of hits - i.e. generally human traffic that enters your web site from a organic or "natural" search query in a search engine (i.e. Google, Yahoo, Bing AOL, Google Images, Google cached, translation, etc). Often human visitors. You can weed out exactly what they entered and how from search engines,- from content entry entry/exit points, keywords, or using advanced segments to refine if truly natural queries or using advanced operators/scrapers/robots. If you want to know the number of times your web site displays in the search results, with it's "page ranking" - you need use Google's Web Master Tools (which evaluates off-site factors as opposed to internals by Google Analytics) then click search queries to click to the chart and index listings. You can also see how google bot analysis your site, do diagnostics, loading time, check for malware, link analysis, etc. Not sure about opening home page - but depends how you open the browser - either directly (from icon), from a url, bookmark, shortcut link. Because some are treated as a referral hit, direct entry, etc. I think it does count. You can off course test and see/email results. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1165535 | 2010-12-30 08:12:00 | The x for search engines refers to the number of hits - i.e. generally human traffic that enters your web site from a organic or "natural" search query in a search engine (i.e. Google, Yahoo, Bing AOL, Google Images, Google cached, translation, etc). Often human visitors. You can weed out exactly what they entered and how from search engines,- from content entry entry/exit points, keywords, or using advanced segments to refine if truly natural queries or using advanced operators/scrapers/robots. If you want to know the number of times your web site displays in the search results, with it's "page ranking" - you need use Google's Web Master Tools (which evaluates off-site factors as opposed to internals by Google Analytics) then click search queries to click to the chart and index listings. You can also see how google bot analysis your site, do diagnostics, loading time, check for malware, link analysis, etc. Not sure about opening home page - but depends how you open the browser - either directly (from icon), from a url, bookmark, shortcut link. Because some are treated as a referral hit, direct entry, etc. I think it does count. You can off course test and see/email results. Thanks for all the info - I'll start digging a bit deeper. I was planning to get the main user to stop using the site as the homepage to see what difference it made. The site is low traffic (<100 hits a day) so if there is a change it should show up fairly clearly. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1165536 | 2010-12-30 08:33:00 | To do basics maybe visit Google's analytic blog (analytics.blogspot.com), and can progress to more advanced at Occams Razor (www.kaushik.net) (in-depth articles by Google's Guru of Analytics). Anything in between are covered at Search Engine Land/Search Engine Journal. They all get together for conferences/interviews/webinars/content writing, etc. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1165537 | 2010-12-31 04:43:00 | Why not look at the Stats on your server? Its all there. If its not there tell your Web Host to activate them. | mzee (3324) | ||
| 1165538 | 2011-01-07 09:34:00 | Why not look at the Stats on your server? Its all there. If its not there tell your Web Host to activate them.The guy who runs our server pointed me at Google analytics. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1165539 | 2011-01-09 05:43:00 | Change to Utopia! | mzee (3324) | ||
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