Does image load and other files counted as hits/visits/unique visits in AWStats (CPanel)?

[esiow2013]

Thanks in advance!

[esiow2013]

Thanks Sean, another question: Do you consider image load or any files as part of the traffic stats in AWstats?

[ske11]

If you want in depth stats that you can use to move SEO forward then you should use a package such as analytics or webtrends.

However if you have a smallish site that you do not need a lot of in-depth data from the stats (you just want to see the pages people land on and the number of visitors each month) then AWstats is fine.

I use AWstats on my smaller and local sites.

I also use Google ananlytics at the same time.

I hope this helps

Sean

[esiow2013]

Thanks Sean! Another question, why we shouldn't use AWstats to measure marketing efforts?

[ske11]

You have 3 different measurements here

A hit - should be any file requested from the server, so an image would add a hit, if you have a page with 2 images and 1 block of text that is 4 hits, 1 for the page, 1 each for the images and 1 for the text.

A visitor is best thought of as a person or IP address visiting the site, 1 visit is recorded each time the IP address visits your site.

A unique is recorded the first time an IP address visits the site but not the second or third, this is normally in a 30 day period. So if I visit your site 3 times today and then again in April you would see 1 unique from me this month and 1 in April.

You would expect to see the Hits being the highest followed by visitors and finally uniques.

I hope this helps

Sean