Web Usage (AWSTATS) Report Results -Monthly History Section
Using a bar graph as well as a chart, the Monthly history section shows a breakdown of the unique visitors, number of visits, pages, hits, and bandwidth used as each statistic was recorded for the months during the reporting period. A running total of each statistic is displayed as the final line of the chart.
Note: If you cannot see this section, manually scroll down to it or click the Monthly history section link from the navigation area.
| Chart Column | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Month | Name of each month in the year | |
| Unique visitors | Total number of times that a site visitor (registered constituent or non-registered visitor) with a unique IP address accessed your site during each month. Note that the number may be slightly inflated by dial-up visitors because they get a new IP address each time they log in, which means each time they visit they get counted again. The system also counted a visitor as unique each time each time the visitor connected to the site with more than one computer, got disconnected from Internet access and reconnected to the site within the same day, or was on a network with a proxy server farm with multiple external IP addresses. | |
| Number of visits | Total number of times, in a 24-hour day between midnight and midnight Central Standard Time, that a site visitor initiated a session and downloads, or accesses, at least one site page during each month. The visit counter does not increment when the same person accesses the site multiple times within the same 24-hour day. For example, if the same person visits on Tuesday at 1:00 pm and again at 8:00 pm, the count increments by only 1 visit. The count will increment by 2 visits if a person visits on Tuesday and then again on Friday, or visits at 23:55 CST on Tuesday and continues to use the site after 00:01 CST (which is Wednesday) | . |
| Pages | Total number of your site pages that visitors have accessed during each month. A site page is an HTML or CGI file downloaded from static servers or generated by the application software. The page can contain multiple pieces of content. Note that this number of pages includes pages viewed by site visitor traffic only and does not include site pages accessed by robot or worm applications, or pages displayed with an HTTP status problem such as Page Not Found. | |
| Hits | Total number of times the system downloaded a file containing a piece of content (such as, an image, icon, button, CSS, Javascript, MPEG, and so on) to display on a Web page as well as the Web page itself. For example, a site page that has 2 images and calls a java script file will generate a total of 4 hits each time it is accessed. Note that this number of hits includes hits from site visitor traffic only but does not include hits from known robot or worm applications or pages displayed with HTTP status problems such as a missing graphic. | . |
| Bandwidth | Total number of bytes that site visitors have downloaded during each month. For example, if you have a Web page that has 50KB of text, 24KB in one image file, and 32KB in another image file, each visitor to that page took 106KB of your bandwidth. Note that the amount of bandwidth included downloads by site visitor traffic only and did not include the bandwidth for downloads performed by known robot or worm applications. | . |