Re: search engine "visits" to my site influence the site stats?

hithere wrote:

Hello

I have a european website, not written in english, but in the stats
software awstats (and also webaliser and analog) united states visitors
are on top.
I wonder if those are real visitors or just refleting google, msn,
yahoo etc robots....

Also, in the awstats it says 1000 visitors a day go to my site. This
includes the robots?
And btw, is there a possibility of preventing stats program to count my
visits? I go a lot to my site.

What does it mean "hits"? Please check next data:

Months Unique Visitors Visits Hits Bandwidth
Jan 2006 872 1025 1112 2021 2.66 MB
Feb 2006 2886 3409 12724 147907 628.94 MB
Mar 2006 7576 8856 35520 491694 2.00 GB
Apr 2006 9834 11551 89975 755615 3.86 GB
May 2006 17131 20764 84666 1315740 4.61 GB

Please see this chart:
I cant see YAHOO in there....is that normal?

Googlebot 36485 1.67 GB 31 May 2006 - 00:03
MSNBot 4248 213.59 MB 31 May 2006 - 01:31
Inktomi Slurp 1454 70.14 MB 31 May 2006 - 01:35
Unknown robot (identified by 'crawl') 857 7.21 MB 29 May 2006 - 23:41
Unknown robot (identified by 'spider') 363 11.93 MB 27 May 2006 - 07:30
Alexa (IA Archiver) 233 15.05 MB 29 May 2006 - 13:00
EchO! 58 100.13 KB 29 May 2006 - 20:55
Netcraft 16 0 14 May 2006 - 22:57
Voila 16 166.13 KB 19 May 2006 - 06:12
Voyager 7 474.15 KB 19 May 2006 - 09:15
WISENutbot 3 115.31 KB 24 May 2006 - 07:24
Unknown robot (identified by 'robot') 1 0 07 May 2006 - 05:30
Walhello appie 1 139.41 KB 05 May 2006 - 16:39


And finnaly:

My site is based in php and mysql
In stats i see that the most visited page is page_products.php
However, that page name is always the same but it shows many thousand
diferent products. Is there a way to count the pages like
page_products=987.php so that i can see what product pages are more
viewed?

Thx for all the comments.

united states visitors are on top.

I would guess that this reflects the IP addresses that your visitors
are using - many webservers based in US so that is why it seems like
you have so many US visitors.

Also, in the awstats it says 1000 visitors a day go to my site. This
includes the robots?

It would but you should be able to check in your stats the visits bots
make

What does it mean "hits"? Please check next data:

Hits are page impressions, so for example where you have 3409 12724,
3409 visitors viewed 12,724 pages or an average of 3.7 pages per
visitor

Is there a way to count the pages like

page_products=987.php so that i can see what product pages are more
viewed?

Don't know your package but you should be able to drill down to at
least 100 pages

On 1 Jun 2006 01:40:04 -0700, "gareth (AT) constructionjobsearch (DOT) co.uk"
<gareth (AT) constructionjobsearch (DOT) co.uk> wrote on the topic of "Re: search
engine "visits" to my site influence the site stats?":

Hits are page impressions, so for example where you have 3409 12724,
3409 visitors viewed 12,724 pages or an average of 3.7 pages per
visitor

No they arent. A hit is a single file request. A page impression is a
request for a file which represents a page, they are very different.

Darren

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