It’s true! Just take a look at this screen capture from Google Analytics:
statistics
Ask Sazbean – Why Shouldn’t I Use Hits to Measure Traffic on My Website?
Hits are really a reference for how many files are being downloaded from the web server. In the days when web pages only had one file associated with them, it made more sense to use hits as a measure of traffic on a website. These days one web page is made up of many different files. Each file downloaded is considered one hit. How many files (hits) per page can vary greatly. So it doesn’t make sense to use hits for measuring traffic any more (unless you want to know how much you’re using your web server).
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Web-based Tools We Use Everyday
We’re an Internet company, so we’re on the nets pretty much all the time. Many of the tools we use every day and couldn’t work without are web-based. We thought we’d share them and find out what you use and like.
Analytics, Statistics & SEO (oh my!)
- HitTail
- Google Analytics
- Google WebMaster Tools
- FeedBurner
- Website Grader
- Twitter Grader
- WHOIS
- SEOQuake
Firefox plugins/clients
Productivity
Images & Design
News
Social Media
What are your favorite tools?
(photo by batega @ Flickr CC)
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