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Access statistics for your site by adding '/stats/' to the end of your web address. E.g. for
http://www.ashland.lib.il.usaccess statistics at
http://www.ashland.lib.il.us/stats/.
Reports are generating approximately weekly and are listed by date. Select a report to view.
Much of the report is self-explanatory, but a few notes are included here.
The request for pages gives a more realistic idea of the number of times the pages were viewed. The term pages represents just the text of web pages, while all requests includes graphics files in additionl to text pages.An example: The web page called "index.html" includes 3 graphics (dog.gif, cat.gif, box.gif). The statistics for one viewer of the page index.html would be:
Total succesful requests: 4
Total successful requests for pages: 1
In this case, hosts can be translated as "computers" (but see also discussion below).
Where are viewers located?
In many instances, the host report provides more specific information about the location of those viewing a web site. Many of the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) providing Internet access in Illinois are based in Illinois. Often, the ISP's domain name identifies a specific physical area. (For example, those listed as macomb.com are probably in Macomb, Illinois).This method does not work for national providers like America On-line (aol.com) because the company provides service in hundreds of locations.
If you don't recognize a particular name, you may be able to find additional information by guessing the name of the company's web server. A few examples:
host name web server address ppp07.casscomm.com www.casscomm.com lrc6.lis.uiuc.edu www.uiuc.edu gldnas5200-25.adams.net www.adams.net
A single host name may represent many different computers. Computers accessing the Internet through dialup connections have a name assigned to them for the length of the connection. The name reported for these computers is really a name assigned to the ISP's modem to which the computer connects.If you connect your computer to the Internet four times in one day, your computer may have as many as 4 different names (up to one per connection). The number of different names would range from 1 to 4, with the exact number dependent upon the number of different modems you used at your ISP. In a related fashion, a single modem at an ISP may service hundreds of customers' computers in a single day.
The number of accesses do not necessarily equal the number of different people viewing a site. The number listed is the maximum number. One person might visit the same page several times, within just a few minutes or over the period of several weeks.