Difference b/t hit and visit

[SDP2006]

What is the difference between a hit and a visit?

[Roy Sinclair]

The web server records a "hit" for each file or script response sent by the server. A hit can be for an image file so requesting a page with several images on it will result in several hits. A "Page request" is the count of hits that are specifically for a page or script execution/response and will ignore the incidental image request hits and a "visit" is recorded for each time a user comes to your site and requests a page or series of pages.

[WA]

Basically what Roy said. A visit usually refers to an actual viewer, so 100 visits a day would imply 100 people visits your site daily. A lot of people still use the two terms "hits" and "visits" interchangeably, which is ambiguous, as you can have a site with only 1 visitor a day but 1000 hits, if that page contains 1000 images, for example.

[SDP2006]

So, If I have 752 visitors a month that means that I have 752 different people viewing my site a month?

[oracleguy]

Not necessarily, if that is unique visitors, then yes but otherwise it could be the same person 752 different times.

[zoobie]

As you can quickly see, most of those stats are completely meaningless. You'll never really know...but only have an inkling of what's really happening. I once looked at my stats thru 2 different aps and they were completely different. :rolleyes:

[oracleguy]

Also if it is tracking unique visitors by IP address, like most do, it can be wrong becuase if you have lots of computers on a network with one internet connection, then they all look like the same computer.

You could have 10 different people visit the site but it would think they are only one person.