How many hits, stated by ops, is good for a site??

[casbboy]

I was wondering what everyone thinks is a good number of hits a day or per fourteen days according to the Powweb ops??

My numbers are getting better but I would like some type of gauge to see how my site is doing on the request count..

Thanks
Ryan

[Mirzabah]

I was wondering what everyone thinks is a good number of hits a day or per fourteen days according to the Powweb ops??You'll get a meaningful answer to your question just as soon as we can all agree on exactly how long a piece of string should be.

[Dabrowski]

Mirz, that was an insightful answer. Can I elaborate?

Ryan, there's no such thing as "good numbers." That is, no such thing that anyone can agree on.

If you just forward your site to friends and family, then who cares how many people visit it? Or if it's business, and you get 100 hits a day, if it keeps you in business, then it's good. The only time that the hits come in to play is if you intend to sell ads on your site. Then the people who want to advertise can tell you if your site is doing well (if it gets enough hits for them to want to advertise).

Short answer, don't worry about it.

[stevel]

Even more to the point is the "hits" is a meaningless measure of site activity, as it counts every HTTP request including images. If I put up a single page with 100 little graphics, each "page view" is counted as 101 hits. If my page has five graphics, that's 6 hits. Which one is better? (The latter in my opinion...)

Page views is a more important measure, but even then, you need to look at what people are doing with your site and where they're coming from. There's no one single answer.

[Dabrowski]

Yeah, I failed to clarify that. Detailed site statistic tracking can be a very complicated process. There is so much to analyze. If you get 1000 unique visitors a day, but they only stay for a brief view, you can deduce that perhaps your keywords are misleading, your site doesn't load fast, your site looks like garbage, etc.

[Code13]

I get more hits than I care for. :P

[casbboy]

How can you figure out page views???

Thanks
Ryan

[stevel]

If you are using awstats, they're listed. I don't know about "webstats".

[B&T]

If you want to get an accurate count of visitors then you need to count browser sessions, not how many times a page loads.

You can do this with the counter on my Tips & Scripts page (link in my sig).

[gardensafari]

I have a funny remark about 'keywords'. My site is about all kinds of animals in our garden: worms, insects, mice and ...birds. Now I live in Europe and what Americans call chickadees, we call titmice, usually abbreviated to tits. That's true, I can't help it. And there are various species, such as the blue tit, the great tit and the coal tit. You should be surprised to know how many weirdos are visiting our pages looking for tits (and I do not mean the birds). They are especially triggered by the Crested Tit! :p

My point: the world is big and probably you'll never find the right key words. If your keywords are too common you'll be low in the search engines, if they are too unique no one will ever be searching using them. Be prepared for a lot of short time visitors.


Yeah, I failed to clarify that. Detailed site statistic tracking can be a very complicated process. There is so much to analyze. If you get 1000 unique visitors a day, but they only stay for a brief view, you can deduce that perhaps your keywords are misleading, your site doesn't load fast, your site looks like garbage, etc.

[casbboy]

Thanks,

I created my own personal counter with your tips, sounds good. Also got the awstats running now

Ryan