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Old 12-03-2006, 02:49 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Jill View Post
Umm...not to put a damper on your enthusiasm, but "hits" is not a worthwhile measurement.

Hits does not equal unique site visitors. Hits measures each item on your site that gets downloaded to the visitor's browser.

So for instance, if you have a page that has 10 images on it, when someone visits that page, it will render as 11 hits. 1 for the html file, and 10 for the images.
Hah, I wish I knew about that last year. I thought I was getting 1,000 different people each day at one point, and I thought it was a huge milestone. Then I put up Google AdSense and used w3counter, and I found that it was more like 100 people. I didn't know why there was such a big difference between my web host's stats package and w3counter's stats until now. Thanks for that. B-)
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