| A
visit is a collection of requests that represent
all the pages and graphics seen by a particular
visitor at one time. For example, a visitor to
your site may go to 10 HTML pages and indirectly
request 25 graphic elements. Those 35 requests
represent one visit. The total number of visits is
usually more than the total number of visitors
because each visitor can visit the site more than
once. Visits are just estimates because there is
no way to be certain that a series of requests
actually belongs to the same person, or, for that
matter, to the same person during the same visit.
Hit List determines visits based on several
factors including IP addresses, cookies and the
delay between consecutive requests. |