Counting Hits

[PastorMark]

Sorry to bring up an old topic but browser issues are making me rethink...

If I have a web page that is just html or xml, is that only one hit when someone accesses that page? For example: http://grahamfriends.edoxy.com/Sermons/podcast.xml. I have 800+ hits to that page so far this month. Would that be construed as so many visits to that xml page?

I ask because there are no graphics or embedded mp3s. Yet that page loads differently in different browsers. With Chrome it's just text. Firefox adds an RSS graphic or two (though it's not in my xml coding). Does that throw off the count?

[bdh]

XML files display different in different browsers and if images are added to "prettify" the page, it's added by the browser and has nothing to do with your website. I'm pretty sure it's just 1 hit in all browsers.

[PastorMark]

That's what I thought. So, the Webalizer says the entire domain has 889 visits and that 834 of them are from that XML. Right?


Hits Files Pages Visits Sites KBytes Visits Pages Files Hits
May 2009 754 633 243 74 466 1340739 889 2918 7599 9055

1 834 9.21% 6459 0.48% /Sermons/podcast.xml 2 380 4.20% 2235 0.17% / 3 184 2.03% 622 0.05% /favicon.ico 4 156 1.72% 2427 0.18% /banner.jpg 5 154 1.70% 153 0.01% /Sermons/mug.jpg 6 137 1.51% 15173 1.13% /sunday.jpg 7 137 1.51% 623 0.05% /this-week.jpg 8 128 1.41% 1897 0.14% /Sermons/ 9 127 1.40% 2716 0.20% /ad.gif 10 78 0.86% 174 0.01% /Pictures/Rivermill @ B 11 48 0.53% 1311 0.10% /Sermons/preach.gif 12 39 0.43% 122 0.01% /Pictures/Hawfields Jazz Band at B 13 38 0.42% 463 0.03% /GFC-banner.jpg 14 29 0.32% 254 0.02% /discipleship.html 15 29 0.32% 346 0.03% /vert16.gif 16 28 0.31% 43 0.00% /logo-80.gif 17 26 0.29% 260 0.02% /Pictures/ 18 26 0.29% 56 0.00% /time.jpg 19 24 0.27% 24 0.00% /BLOG/ 20 23 0.25% 174 0.01% /Contact/ 21 22 0.24% 118 0.01% /community.html 22 20 0.22% 107 0.01% /Puzzles/30books.html 23 19 0.21% 452 0.03% /Puzzles/ 24 19 0.21% 13 0.00% /email.jpg 25 19 0.21% 12 0.00% /esv.gif 26 18 0.20% 85 0.01% /Contact/directions.html 27 18 0.20% 136 0.01% /sevens.html 28 18 0.20% 3925 0.29% /sunday-lg.jpg 29 17 0.19% 481 0.04% /psalms-brueggemann.pdf 30 16 0.18% 24 0.00% /logo-80.jpg

[PastorMark]

Last month 2,200 of our 2,500 visits were to the audio sermons. Does this information also extrapolate for you that I should really be concentrating there. Does your spirit bear witness with my spirit? :D

[bdh]

That's what I thought. So, the Webalizer says the entire domain has 889 visits and that 834 of them are from that XML. Right?That would be the case, yes.

[bdh]

...should really be concentrating theregive 'em what they want ;)

[PastorMark]

Thank you, Brent. Once again.

The offer is still open. ;)

[PastorMark]

That xml file is also being accessed through iTunes. I assume that this would show as a hit but that whatever audio file is downloaded through iTunes would not show in Webalizer. Would my assumption be accurate?

[bdh]

The actual .mp3 (or whatever it is) would also show as a hit (if it was downloaded).

[PastorMark]

Okey-doke. Thx.

Then that means TONS (by my standards) are accessing the xml file but relatively few are actually downloading. Frankly, I had hoped all those podcast.xml hits indicated folks were listening via iTunes or some similar service. Sadly, evidently not the case.

[bdh]

Correct. Remember there are tons of automated services these days that find feeds and index them (hence the hits on the xml files) but very few actually download the actual content.