Hits vs Members

[edjay]

Hi!

There are lots of questions, but this will do for starters:

What is the difference between hits and visitors?

What difference do Registered Members and hits/visitors make to website space and bandwidth?

Many thanks!

[jon123]

best bet is to ignore hits stats, they really don't represent anything. For instance: your homepage may have 5 images on it and every image counts as one hit. It isn't abnormal so have 10 hits per page on your website.

Visits are the ones that count. These are actual visitors to your site or page. If you have 10 visitis to your page then 10 people have visited your homepage. This is not to be confused with unique visitors. These are people who have not visited your site before....well not using that ip address.

Hits on any siter look impressive, but the ones that matter are visits.

[edjay]

Excellent. Thank you!

[Administrator]

Edjay,

Each new visitor will add 1 or more hits and that will increase traffic ( bandwidth usage )

Registered members of our forum visit our webhosting forum regularly which brings more hits for the forum and as the number of registered members goes on increasing then the traffic keeps on increasing.

[edjay]

Hey Admin!

So an increase in bandwidth is due to a mixture of:

regular members
unique visitors
visitors

Does the hit-count affect an increase in bandwidth at all?

Thanks for the welcome!!

[Pumazooma]

Does the hit-count affect an increase in bandwidth at all?

You count one hit for every image or file that has to be acquired to see the page so the more complex the page, the more hits it requires to see it, the more bandwidth it uses.

My forum has about 4600 unique IP visits per month but that generates 1.1m hits. You can see how people think their sites are more popular than they really are when they quote hits

[edjay]

That's getting clearer. Thanks!

EDit* Your site has 4601 unique visitors now! I've added it to my bookmarks as there's a medical OS that I know of that's being put together in SourceForge at the moment. I'm just waiting to hear about the first bootable Beta.

[jon123]

........sorry about the typos in my earlier post. This gawd damn Toshiba notebook has an awful keyboard layout, I keep hitting more than one key. that coupled with a few double brandies is a recipe for gobbledegook

[edjay]

LOL! It's the info that's important, don't worry about it!

[kev woodman]

Bandwidth use is also dependent on the type of files you are serving e.g. if you have simple HTML pages with no images you may be talking about bandwidth of a couple of Kb per visitor while if you are serving up big video files that bandwidth usage could be hundreds of Mb.

For normal Web pages (text and images) bandwidth won't be a problem and by the time it is your site would be popular enough for you to pay for it.

[edjay]

That's great! I now need to accumulate some research on web-page sizes.
Thank you.

EDit* I forgot: nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit