Thursday, September 11th, 2008

What Time is it?

Things can get very complicated when it comes to working out the current time in connection with things on the internet such as web pages and emails. There is the current time where you are. There is the time where the server is where a web page is hosted. There is the time at the [...]

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Counting Lost Visitors

How many people who reach your web page leave again before the page even finishes loading? To find out you need a way of counting both how many people start downloading your page and also how many people finish downloading the page. You are never going to be able to obtain complete figures for this [...]

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Hits, Views, and Visitors - What’s the Difference?

When reading about web statistics you will most likely see reference made to the number of hits a site gets, the number of page views it gets, and the number of visitors it gets. These are not alternative ways of referring to the same thing - each of the three is something entirely different.
Hits, Views, [...]