Next is a popular category, Robots/Spider Top 25 visits. This gives you a breakdown of the top individual visitors to your site. * All categories with a Top 10 or 25 have a link to the right of the category that can give you an entire list if there are more than 10 or 25.įollowing this is the Hosts Top 25. This shows you what countries your visitors are coming from, starting with the most and working its way down. Next is Visitors Domains/Countries (Top 25)*. If you have a page that has 50 KB of text, 2 images at 24 and 32 KB then each visitor to that page will take 106 KB of your bandwidth.ĪWStats then gives you this information for the year so far as well as a 30 and 7 day perspective. The more appropriate numbers to consider are both 'number of visitors' and 'unique visitors' (see above).īandwidth - The total number of bytes downloaded.
The most common referenced stat used and one that is virtually meaningless (and useless).
If you have a page with 2 images calling a java script file the page will generate a total of 4 hits. Hits - This is every file requested by the visitor. This does not include images, java script or CSS and the like. Pages - This is the total number of pages viewed by visitors. If I visit your site and then come back 4 more time you should see one Unique visit and 5 visits from me. Number of Visits - The number of visits are the total number of visits by all visitors over a given period of time. This can be a bit misleading because dial-up visitors get a new IP each time they log on so you can have the same person visit different times and give a unique hit.
Unique Visitors - These are the total number of visits by a unique IP address. These can be a bit confusing so here is a brief explanation. When reading your web statistics in AWStats you may see a few unfamiliar words and terms.