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Several of Sawmill's views deal with "session" information, including the "sessions overview" and the "paths through the site" view. Sessions are similar to visitors, except that they can "time out." When a visitor visits the site, and then leaves, and comes back later, it will count as two sessions, even though it's only one visitor. To reduce the effect of caches that look like very long sessions, Sawmill also discards sessions longer than a specified time. The timeout interval is also customizable.
Requests
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This term refers to the number of files that are downloaded from a web server. Keeping track of hits is a way of measuring traffic to a website that can be misleading.
Avoid to use it.
However ratio accesses/hits can be interesting.
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Accesses
(or page view) |
Accesses correspond to hits on HTML pages. This is a accurate way to know how popular is your website. Page parsing can be defined in
the configuration file from extension (html, htm, php ...)
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| Traffic (or bandwith) |
Bandwidth is the total number of bytes transferred. This can be helpful to know how much bandwith is used by your website.
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| Hosts (or visitors) |
Hosts correspond roughly to the total number of people who visited the site assuming one hostname is one person (so I prefer to use 'Hosts' rather than 'visitor'). This can be inaccurate due to the effects of web caches and proxies. Check the session section if you need an accurate visitor number.
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| Countries |
The easy way to know if your website is popular around the world. Check the countries section to get more statistics. In order to get these stats, you
should use the reverse dns option if you're using a pure IP logfile. The Geo module will help to translate unresolved IP if enabled.
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