Webalizer Quick Help

• Hits represent the total number of requests made to the server during the given time period (month, day, etc.);
• Files represent the total number of requests (Hits) that actually resulted in something being sent back to the user. Not all requests will send data, such as 404-Not Found errors and requests for pages that are already in the user program cache;
  Tip: By looking at the difference between Hits and Files, you can get a rough indication of repeat visitors. The greater the difference between the two, the more people are requesting pages they already have cached (have viewed already);
• Visits occur when some remote site makes a request for a page on your server for the first time. As long as the same site keeps making requests within a given timeout period, they will all be considered part of the same Visit. If the remote site makes a request to your server, and the length of time since the last request is greater than the specified timeout period (default is 30 minutes), a new Visit is started and counted. Since only Pages will trigger a visit, remote sites that link to graphic and other non-page URLs will not be counted in the visit totals, reducing the number of false visits.
• Pages are those URLs that would be considered the actual page being requested, and not all of the individual items that make it up (such as graphics and audio clips).  Some people call this setting "viewed pages". By default, Pages setting is linked to any URL that has an extension of .html .htm or .cgi
• Kbyte is 1024 bytes. It is used to show the amount of data that was transferred between the server and the remote machine, based on the data found in the server Log files.

Common Definitions

• Site  is a remote machine that makes requests to your server, and is based on IP Address/Hostname
• URL – Uniform Resource Locator. All requests made to a web server need to request something. An URL is that something, and represents an object somewhere on your server, that is accessible to the remote user, or results in an error (e.g.: 404 — Not found).  URLs can be of any type (HTML, Audio, Graphics, etc.).
• Referrers are those URLs that lead a user to your site or caused the user's browser to request something from your website. The vast majority of requests are made from your own URLs, since most HTML pages contain links to other objects such as graphics files. If one of your HTML pages contains links to 10 graphic images, then each request for the HTML page will produce 10 more requests (hits) with the referrer specified as the URL of your own HTML page.
• Search strings are obtained from examining the referrer string.  This information is only available if it is contained in the server logs.
• User Agents are a fancy name for browsers.  Netscape, Opera, Konqueror, etc. are all User Agents, and each reports itself in a unique way to your server. Keep in mind however, that many browsers allow the user to change its reported name, so you might see some obvious fake names in the listing. This information is only available if it is contained in the server logs.
• Entry/Exit pages are those pages that were the first requested in a visit (Entry), and the last requested (Exit).

Statistics page headers

• Monthly Statistics for [month year]
  Avg (average value)
  Max (maximum value)
• Hits by Response Code
  200 – ОК
  304 – Not modified
  404 – Page not found
• Daily Statistics for [month year]  
• Hourly Statistics for [month year]
• Top Total URLs
• Top Total URLs By KBytes
  URLs rating by the volume of transmitted data
• Top Total Entry Pages
• Top Total Exit Pages
• Top Total Sites By KBytes
  Remote machines rating by the volume of transmitted data
• Top Total Referrers
• Top Total Search Strings
• Top Total User Agents
• Top Total Countries
  Rating of countries which your visitors belong to.