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.About Web site Statistics
Starting
Statistics for Your Web Page
Accessing Your Statistics
Meaning of Your Statistics
Techent offers you the ability to keep track of how many people access your web page. These statistics will be run once a week, and will be available after 8 am on Monday.
Statistics are separate from using a web page counter. Your stats show totals for your web site and also allow you to use different ways to count your web page accesses. They are not publically viewable as web page counters are. Only you have access to your web site statistics. You do not have to use statistics.
Using statistics is optional.
NOTE: You will not be able to view your first statistical report until after 8 am on the next Monday following this activation.
To start web stats, from the Technet home page, click ,
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This will set the web statistics to run every week. Results for the preceeding week will be available any time after 8 am Monday. See the Meaning of Your Statistics for more about what they mean.
Four weeks of logs will be kept. Therefore, if you want to keep older results, you must save them to your hard drive. Logs for the fifth week will replace logs for the first week.
To access your logs, enter the URL: http://www.technet.nm.net/^username/stats/ into your favorite browser. Notice the use of the ^ , or caret, symbol (produced by holding the Shift and 6 key down at the same time). You cannot use the numeric keypad.
EXAMPLE: If your username is mburns, you would type in http://www.technet.nm.net/^mburns/stats/.
This will direct your browser to a special private directory that only you can access. You will have to enter your username and password to access these unless you have already logged in.
This directory will list the file name of your stats file or files. Click on any filename to view the report. See the Meaning of Your Statistics for help on what they mean.
The name of your stats files represents the time they cover:
For instance, the file WeekOf19980712.html means that the file covers all access to your web site the week starting July 12, 1998, and ending on July 19th, 1998.
The report generated shows the total number of access to your page or pages, as well as the top ten most popular pages.
Counting how many people accessed your page can be tricky. An important distinction is between number of hits and distinct hosts.
Hits
Each time a web browser accesses a web page or a graphic used by that page, the web server registers a hit.
Distinct Hosts
A host is any computer on the Internet. A distinct host is a count of how many different computers accessed your page. This is usually much closer, though not neccesarily identical, to the number of people who accessed your web page.
EXAMPLE: If three people visit your page, and your page has 5 graphics, you receive 3 hits for each time the page is loaded and one hit for each of the graphics and probably see a total of 18 hits. However, some people may turn image loading off or be using a text-only browser. If so, no hits for the graphics will be recorded since they weren't loaded.
So the number of hits does not equal the number of people who visited your page. The number of distinct hosts is the more important number. This is a count of how many computers accessed your page.
Document URL -- http://www.technet.nm.net/menu/doc/web-stats.htm
Last modified on October 5, 1998
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