Popular pages-hits & not page loads?

[duchessofweb]

The popular pages filter shows pages visited by hits, rather than page loads - so how to compare the hits vs. page loads? Project Summary data is shown in Page loads.

While I know the difference between hits and page loads, it is difficult to compare these different entities (popular pages' statistics being shown in hits, and Statcounter data elsewhere displayed in page loads). Also, I believe that page loads are generally considered a more accurate measurement than hits.

It would be easier to compare like statistics - i.e., page loads and page loads, rather than hits and page loads. The popular pages' information would be more useful if it could be listed by page loads rather than hits.

Is there some way I can configure the way that popular pages' statistics are displayed to show the page loads, rather than hits?

Other than this issue, StatCounter is a great tool. I recommend it to everyone ! Thank you.

[Arne]

I don't know what you mean by "the difference between hits and page loads", but at least in Statcounter stats "hits" and "page loads" are the same thing.
Only difference is the length of the words.

[duchessofweb]

OK, thanks. Hits vs. page views/loads/visits:

Hit - each file sent to a browser by a web server. Web pages are made up of files, and every image in a page is a separate file.

Page view/load/visit - each time a visitor views a page on a website, regardless of how many hits are generated.

When a visitor views a page (a page view /load /visit), they may see numerous images/graphics/pictures and this generates numerous hits - per page.

Example: If you have a page with 10 pictures, then a request to the server to view that page generates 11 hits - 10 for the pictures, and one for the web page /html file itself.

A single page view/load/visit can generate literally hundreds of hits.

[Arne]

Example: If you have a page with 10 pictures, then a request to the server to view that page generates 11 hits - 10 for the pictures, and one for the web page /html file itself.

A single page view/load/visit can generate literally hundreds of hits.

Yes, if you think server logs! But now we are talking Statcounter, a 3rd party tracker.

And that kind of tracker can't log those 10 pictures or what ever is on the page. It can only log html pages, and only if the code is in the page source. So ha hit can't be anything else than a page load, the visitors "hits" the page when they load it to the browser. ;)

[duchessofweb]

Thank you.