Members have access to real time visitor statistics.
Real time means they are not updated once a day (usually at midnight) but on
a continuous base. So if you where to check the stats during a sleepless night
you will typically see relatively little activity while the numbers keep rising
once the clock hits about 7am on the East coast.
We count VISITORS, not Hits!
What is the difference and why do you care ?
Hits return great looking, but inflated, numbers.
A Visitor is an individual surfer (we use the visitor IP address for tracking).
No matter if he visits just the home page or spends an hour looking at 200 pages, he is
still counted as ONE visitor.
Hits are the individual items the Visitor's browser requests from the website.
Example: If a webpage has some Text, 6 menu buttons a corporate logo and 5 photos
this would count as 13 hits (one hit for the Text PLUS a hit for each button, logo and photo).
If a visitor now looks at 5 pages he can easily create 50 or more hits; a nice number
but obviously pretty useless.
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