The Big Lie – Stats
I have 18333 hits since I moved my site to this URL. That is the past 18 days. That means I have been getting around 1000+ hits a day. Ha! I freaked out, at first, thinking that 1000+ folk suddenly, out of the blue, found my site. They didn’t. The big question is what are Hits? What are Page Visits? What are Unique Visitors? What are Page Views?
The first thing that came to mind is….Fuck if I know!
Through some study I have found that Page Visits are the most reliable stat. I get around 50ish Page Visits per day. That relates to what I always thought hits were.
Page Visits are the number of folks who visit my site. If you come to my site twice in a day, well that’s two Page Visits, see?
Unique Visitors is all the different IP address’s that have come to my site. This is not a good indication of the number of people coming to my site because if you come to my site twice then I have two , “HITS”, as it were, see?
OK, I’m getting bored with all this and I want to go fire up the grill and cook some boneless pork ribs on my grill and eat like a carnivore should. This whole discussion about stats is horse hockey if you hold to the antiquated idea of HITS.
I get about 1800 hits a week and nobody reads my site!!!
Know what I mean?
Now ask me how many Page Visits I get and you’ll get a more correct answer as to how many folks check me out.
Whether I am a hit, a miss or a page view, I will call round when the ribs are ready.
It wasn’t me. I wouldn’t hit anyone.
I put sitemeter on my site and now it makes me crazy.
I feel your pain.
I’m also guilty of reading a blgo and not responding, then coming back later to comment. So I’m accepting my part of the responsibility in screwing up your stats.
I’d say I’d reform, but dude. I’m no quitter.
heh.
JC
Thanks to spam, my website is wildly popular.
Grannymar, Saturday night around 1800. You’re more than welcome. I’ll set a place for you.
Baino, yes you would.
Jen, stats are addictive no? Once I moved to this site I started getting good stats and WAY too many of them. don’t worry about your surfing habits, I do the same thing.
Phil, Mr. Sheriff has been one of the funniestiest things I have read in a long time. I love the Playaz!!!
When I visit you, I refresh the page 999 times. I’m THAT nice.