Re: [epub] help a novice with site statistics terminology?

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From: "mvg" <mvg@spiralcomm.net>

Greg,
What stats package do you use or does your hosting company provide these?
I am not thrilled with my current stats and would like to have more accurate
information
Thanks
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----- Original Message -----
From: GregWatson <Greg.Watson@brazeltonhotels.com>
To: <epub@onelist.com>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 9:10 AM
Subject: RE: [epub] help a novice with site statistics terminology?


> From: GregWatson <Greg.Watson@brazeltonhotels.com>
>
> Reid:
>
> Your software may define things differently, however, here is how I
> would interpret your statistics.
>
> You had 722 visitors to your website, each visitor visited an average of
> 1.7 pages of your website pages.  The "hits" counter means that your
> average page includes 4.4 different files (probably graphic images or
> included files) ...
>
> I didn't have time to explore your site, however, in the 60 or so
> seconds I was there, I visited about 6 pages of your site ...
>
> What this means to me is that your visitors are not "sticking" around to
> explore the site.  There are lots of articles on creating "stickiness"
> ...
>
> I *personally* didn't see any major things wrong with your website ...
> so while there may be areas which you can "tweak" your website I would
> start looking at how to develop more "targeted traffic" ...
>
> However, back to the orginal scope of this thread ... site statistics
> can also help tell you where you traffic is coming from (referring
> websites) ... what pages they arrive on (you might be suprised what
> pages people "enter" your website on, especially from search engines)
> ... what your most popular pages are (i.e. how many of those total page
> views are for each individual page of your website) ... a good traffic
> stats program will give you that information ... I don't know if your
> current stats program is giving you this information or not ...
>
> A good traffic stats program can also filter out specific IP addresses
> so if you have a dedicated IP connection your own traffic will not be
> counted <GRIN>!!!!  Before I had a dedicated connection, I used to
> filter out all of the traffic from my local dial-up ISP so none of my
> own testing of the website showed up in the stats ... if you are not
> filtering your own traffic out, your stats will include your own traffic
> as well ...
>
> Good luck and best wishes ...
>
> Greg.Watson@AQuickRead.com
>

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