Website Administrator Console Manual - Your Website Statistics
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Your Website Statistics
Our websites come with a free statistics package which can tell you lots of different things about your website.
Access your website statistics with your browser at this address: your-domain-name.com.au/stats
Be sure to substitute "your-domain-name.com.au" for the domain name of your own website
The initial stats page should appear like this:
Notice that the month namess are blue links. (They change to red if they've already been visited) These links take you to a detail page of statistics for just the month you select. You are then presented with a long list of charts and graphs which are explained below. This information is useful in determining how your website is performing and how it is being used.
If you'd like to protect your website statistics from public view, let us know. We will password-protect the statistics page for you. You will then need your Administrator Console account username & password to access the statistics. We can also optionally create a separate account which you can provide to partners and advertisers if required.
Here's what the information means:
| Definitions |
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| Hits |
A hit is a request for a file from your website. There are more hits than files because many pages contain the same files which don’t need to be requested more than once. |
| Files |
A file is a page, image or stylesheet, which together make up your website. This statistic refers to the number of files that have been sent from your website. |
| Pages |
A page is simply a page of your website, made up of a collection of files. |
| Visits |
A visit is one person viewing your website at one time. Two people viewing your website, or one person viewing it on two separate occasions, are both examples of two visits. |
| Kbytes |
This is an abbreviation for Kilobytes, which is a measure of data. Site and pages vary in ‘data efficiency’ so this statistic enables you to measure data traffic. |
| Unique Sites |
This refers to the ‘sites’ that are visiting your website where a site may be a PC, a company, or an entire Internet Service Provider (ISP). |
| Unique URLs | Unique Resource Locators (URLs) are web addresses of pages. This statistic tells you how many different pages your website has served to visitors. |
| Unique Referrers |
Referrers are other websites that link to your website. This statistic tells you how many other sources of visitors the website has tracked. |
| Unique User Agents |
A User Agent is most commonly a browser, which enables you to see what browser software visitors to your site are using, usually of interest to web developers. |
| Descriptions | |
| Daily Usage |
These charts tell you how much usage there was on each day of the month you are viewing. It breaks down the information into hits, files, pages, visits, sites and Kbytes, as defined above. |
| Daily Statistics |
These are the numerical statistics used to create the Daily Usage chart above. |
| Hourly Usage |
Similar to the Daily Usage chart above, this chart breaks down the website activity by the hour of the day (cumulative for each day of the month). As the server is located in USA (GMT-4) you need to subtract 14 hours (15 during daylight savings). |
| Hourly Statistics |
These are the numerical statistics used to create the Hourly Usage chart above. |
| Top URLs |
These are the most commonly visited pages of your website based on the number of times each pages has been requested. |
| Top URLs by Kbytes |
These are the most commonly visited pages of your website based on the amount of data sent, meaning bigger pages rank higher than lighter pages. |
| Top Entry Pages |
These are the top pages that visitors saw first when they visited your website. Typically your home page is the top, but some sites have pages with a large number of inbound links that attract visitors to that page directly. |
| Top Exit Pages |
These are the top pages that people view last before leaving your website. Pages with a large amount of outbound links will rank highly here. |
| Top Sites |
These are the places on the Internet that have viewed your site the most, based on the number of pages viewed. You will see a lot of ISPs listed here. |
| Top Sites by Kbytes |
These are the places on the Internet that have viewed your site the most, based on the amount of data transferred. You will see a lot of ISPs listed here. |
| Top Referrers |
These are the top referring websites – websites that send visitors to your website through links. Search engines usually rate highly here. |
| Top User Agents |
These are the top software applications – usually browsers – that have been used to view your website. |
| Usage by Country |
This are the countries that visit your website the most, represented in a pie chart. |
| Top Total Countries |
This is the numerical data used to create the Usage by Country pie chart above. |
If you require further assistance with understanding your website statistics, please contact us directly.