Site hits?

Elizabeth Schott · 02-17-2003, 01:18 AM

For those artists who have their own sites:
I was wondering about the average number of requests your site gets daily. I am averaging 311 per day and thought that was pretty good.

I am sure that Cynthia's numbers are huge here, but I am new to the web personally and didn't know if my numbers were good or bad.

Michael Georges · 02-17-2003, 10:06 AM

My site gets between 20 and 40 hits per day. If you are getting 300+, then you are certainly getting a lot of traffic.

Marvin Mattelson · 02-17-2003, 11:54 AM

The stat you want to key on is the number of visits per day, not hits. I'm no expert but hits refer to the number of files requested. One page can contain tens if not hundreds of hits depending on the complexity of each page. A visit on the other hand reveals how many unique people come to your site per day. When someone says they have x amount of hits its like saying, "I have one hundred thousand pennies."

The following definitions may help:

Hits: A hit is any file that is requested from your site. That file can be a html page, a gif graphic, a jpg, etc. If your home page consists of three photos, a logo, and index.html then each time someone visits that page it will account for five hits

Michael Georges · 02-17-2003, 12:12 PM

Yep. Marvin is correct. I count "hits" as unique visitors to the splash page of my website where I have a counter. It does not count the other pages on my site that they may visit while there, the image files displayed, etc.

Elizabeth Schott · 02-17-2003, 12:59 PM

Thanks for the clearification Marvin, as I said I am confused. The following is the way my data is reported, I think this is one week:

Quote:

(Figures in parentheses refer to the 7-day period ending 17-Feb-2003 01:15).
Successful requests: 3,785 (2,239)
Average successful requests per day: 240 (319)
Successful requests for pages: 489 (282)
Average successful requests for pages per day: 31 (40)
Failed requests: 54 (24)
Redirected requests: 277 (110)
Distinct files requested: 198 (196)
Distinct hosts served: 335 (197)
Data transferred: 66.967 megabytes (42.311 megabytes)
Average data transferred per day: 4.262 megabytes (6.044 megabytes)

So does that mean 31 for me? Dang - I liked the 311 from the total month of January average better!

Michele Rushworth · 02-17-2003, 01:26 PM

You should probably talk to your website hosting service about what all these mean. I'd be particularly interested all those "failed requests"."

Cynthia Daniel · 02-17-2003, 01:28 PM

Beth,

Different statistics programs have different terminology, but I would say the 31 is the number of unique visitors to your site.

SOG overall averages 90-100,000+ visitors per month. That's one of the pluses of those who qualify for and join the main site. It's hard for a single small web site to get that kind of traffic. Obviously a certain amount of that is artist traffic.

Elizabeth Schott · 02-17-2003, 01:44 PM

Michele, I did inquire about the failure, here is the correspondence:

Quote:

Article #: 1
From: pastel
Time Sent: 1/10/2003 - 22:55:05

I noticed this on my user log, is there some way of
checking why this is frequent? Did I mess something
up?

Failed requests: 18 (13)
Redirected requests: 118 (78)

Thanks, Beth

Article #: 2
From: support
Time Sent: 1/10/2003 - 23:03:17

You could go through your logs with a text editor, but it would be
difficult to find to the Failed Request. I'm not sure I would call it
frequent if you have 18 failures out of 1600. Simple down you log.gz
files. Uncompress them with a zip utility and use your text editor to
read the logs.

If you have anymore problems questions let us know.

I don't want you to think they are not taking it seriously. They are one of the best hosting sites for artist like myself who does not have a person like Cynthia to run the show. They only charge $99.00 per year and are there for you in a second. A site like SOG can not be with them because they are limited in information transfer, megs on their server etc. much like milage on a leased car.

Cynthia I have noticed that those of us non SOG artist, do get traffic through your site. Because our names are in active type here, web crawlers put them in their search engines. Some people have had a problem with this, because of critiques they received and their clients saw them. I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT ME!

If you look for a "portrait artist search" anywhere - trust me, SOG is up their inbetween the old masters and Nelson Shanks. I can't remember if it was Michael or Marvin, but when I was looking for a site on a great master, they came up in the top twenty searches!

Michael Georges · 02-17-2003, 01:53 PM

Quote:

I can't remember if it was Michael or Marvin, but when I was looking for a site on a great master, they came up in the top twenty searches!

HA! Wasn't me! Seriously though, I need pay my press agent more.

Marvin Mattelson · 02-17-2003, 05:07 PM

Perhaps the search was for "master of his own domain?"