| Hit |
Any connection to an Internet site, including
inline images and errors.
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| Request |
Any hit that successfully retrieves
content. Unlike hits, requests are related to content and user behavior.
For example, if a user requests an HTML page that has three graphics
files, the web server might make a log entry for the three graphics files,
the HTML page, and perhaps add some lines for overhead. However, only one
request is counted by Analysis.
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| Visit |
A series of consecutive requests from a user
to an Internet site. If your log file data includes referrer data,
then new visits begin with referring links external to your Internet site.
Regardless of whether or not you have referrer data, if a user does not
make a request after a specified time period, the previous series of
requests is considered to be a completed visit.
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| User |
Anyone who visits your site at least once. If
your log file data contains cookie data, users will be identified
by their cookie . If your log files do not contain cookie data, a
registered username is assigned to users. Or, if no registration
information is available, users’ are identified by their Internet
hostnames. Many organizations use Internet gateways, which mask the
real Internet hostnames, so user counts may be conservative for those
users identified by their Internet hostnames.
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| Organization |
A commercial, academic, nonprofit, government,
or military entity that connects users to the Internet, identified by an
entity’s Internet domains. Microsoft Site Server Analysis groups
together all domains registered to the same organization as one
organization. If a domain is unavailable in the database, one Internet
domain is used to identify one organization.
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| Request duration |
The time between two consecutive requests in
the same visit.
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| Visit duration |
The time between the first and last request of
a visit. This time does not include how long users viewed the last request
of a visit.
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| Geography |
The continent, country, region, state, city,
and zip code are based on an organization's Internet domain registration.
Only Internet domains found in the Analysis database are included in
region, state, city, and zip code analyses. Each Internet domain is
associated with only one zip code, so all users from a domain used in
multiple locations are considered to be at one location.
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