[GPSCC-chat] web site hit count

[Cameron L. Spitzer]

The right way to look at your hit count is to analyze the nightly web 
server logs,
not by counting them at page load time the way we do.
That way you count the hits that don't actually fetch a new copy, but 
only check whether their local copy is stale.  Server logs from a busy 
site will mostly show those checks, because large ISPs like AOL and 
Earthlink run a cache between your server and their customers.
I suspect we're not counting those right now.

Log analysis also lets you ignore hits by web crawlers from search 
engines and spammers.
If you look at our logs, you'll see most of the traffic is search engine 
crawlers.
There are still at least a dozen search engines besides Bing and Google.
There are also crawlers that are just gathering statistics for academic 
research.




On 09/27/2012 11:43 AM, Jim Doyle wrote:
> The GPSCC web site's main page has a hit counter
> at the bottom of the page.
>
> I just checked a moment ago and the counter was at 13,330.
> The hit counter was started in January  2010 so for the past
> two years and nine months the average daily hit count is
> about 13.3.
>
> There is also a hit counter at the bottom of the left hand column
> on the contacts page which currently shows 2,520 for an average
> of 2.5 accesses per day for the past two years and nine months.
>
> What conclusion should we draw from this low level of usage?
>
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