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Showing posts with label statistics. blog statistics. Show all posts

Friday, March 17, 2017

Site meter stats

Checked my site meter at my blog. 985 hits today. The big hits this week were a cartoon on the Ohio weather and U.S. spending on diabetes. A hit doesn't mean a read.  The words come up in a search. Here's what I get for my free statistics.  Blogger also supplies statistics, and they seem to be completely different.
  • Detailed stats - Specific info about your visitors such as their IP, location, browser type, and pages they loaded.
  • Hit - When a visitor opens a page on your site, also referred to as a pageload.
  • IP masking - Hides the last part of their IP in the stats.
  • Log - This holds all of your detailed stats. It has a has a finite limit and removes the oldest stats to make room for new stats.
  • Log size - Represents how many detailed stats can be stored. The free log comes with a log size of 500, so it can hold detailed stats for the last 500 hits. To hold more detailed stats you can adjust the log size at this page.
  • Pageload - When a visitor opens a page on your site, also referred to as a hit.
  • Returning visitor - A visitor who has been to the site before and has returned.
  • Tracking code - The StatCounter code placed on your site to collect stats on visitors.
  • Unique visitor - Represents one visitor to the site.