Secrets of the Office Masters: Understanding FrontPage's Statistics

As long as you're using FrontPage Server Extensions, you'll automatically get a long list of useful statistics, covering almost every trackable nuance of your Web site. It helps to understand the terminology:

  • A hit is a single access. If you have a page with nine graphics on it, every time a user waits around for the entire page to load, you'll log 10 hits.

  • A page view or impression is the number of times a user initiates viewing of a page—whether or not that user waits around to download all of the graphics. Identifying your most-used pages can help focus your sales pitches; many sites put particularly enticing offers in their high-volume locations.

  • Referring URLs are the URLs ...

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