Summary (codehistorian.com)

18th April 2005 - 18th May 2005

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Day	Date	Page Loads	Unique Visitors	First Time Visitors	Returning Visitors
Wednesday	18th May 2005	72	27	22	5
Tuesday	17th May 2005	997	376	340	36
Monday	16th May 2005	837	341	312	29
Sunday	15th May 2005	263	130	123	7
Saturday	14th May 2005	316	136	128	8
Friday	13th May 2005	937	332	308	24
Thursday	12th May 2005	1,059	436	410	26
Wednesday	11th May 2005	899	430	404	26
Tuesday	10th May 2005	855	346	319	27
Monday	9th May 2005	1,091	347	313	34
Sunday	8th May 2005	228	95	89	6
Saturday	7th May 2005	322	90	79	11
Friday	6th May 2005	782	236	203	33
Thursday	5th May 2005	806	237	206	31
Wednesday	4th May 2005	1,264	394	349	45
Tuesday	3rd May 2005	1,134	378	347	31
Monday	2nd May 2005	788	316	289	27
Sunday	1st May 2005	235	113	104	9
Saturday	30th April 2005	275	112	106	6
Friday	29th April 2005	753	274	244	30
Thursday	28th April 2005	942	360	331	29
Wednesday	27th April 2005	1,164	416	388	28
Tuesday	26th April 2005	1,043	350	319	31
Monday	25th April 2005	859	323	295	28
Sunday	24th April 2005	191	114	110	4
Saturday	23rd April 2005	194	116	112	4
Friday	22nd April 2005	831	343	312	31
Thursday	21st April 2005	1,001	441	410	31
Wednesday	20th April 2005	1,276	512	472	40
Tuesday	19th April 2005	1,285	449	428	21
Monday	18th April 2005	1,047	386	359	27
Average		766	289	266	23
Total		23,746	8,956	8,231	725

Returning Visitors - Based purely on a cookie, if this person is returning to your website for another visit an hour or more later.

First Time Visitors - Based purely on a cookie, if this person has no cookie then this is considered their first time at your website.

Unique Visitor - Based purely on a cookie, this is the total of the returning visitors and first time visitors - all your visitors.

Page Load - The number of times your page has been visited.

What can the Summary Stats tell me?

There are two dimensions to the stats for a 'Standard StatCounter project'. There are the 'Summary Stats', and the 'Detailed Log Analysis'. The 'Summary Stats' provide a lifetime daily count of the totals of visitors to your website each day. And allows you to run reports since the day you started the project! After a few months of tracking, it is absolutely superb to look back and to see the daily, weekly and monthly trends of your visitors. Does your website have a weekday rush and a weekend slump? Did your traffic take a surge leading up to a holiday season? Is your website in general growing or stagnating? It is a wonderful tool to quickly assess the current success of your website.

How do the Summary Stats work?

The 'Summary Stats' determines whether a visitor has been to your website before by using a cookie. So if a user has cookies disabled we have no way of knowing if they are unique or not, and will by default be considered unique. However the majority of visitors have cookies enabled.

To make up for relying on cookies in the summary stats, the rest of the stats are based on your detailed log analysis of the last xxx number of pageloads. The uniqueness in this case is based on your visitors' IP addresses. This method works very well for the majority, but yet again there is an exception. AOL users, and visitors who use what is known as a 'dynamic web proxy' that changes each time they access a webpage. So if a single AOL user visits 7 webpages on your website it will likely come up as 7 different IP addresses!

Both cookies and IP addresses have their strengths and weaknesses for determining the uniqueness of a visitor. It is impossible to be 100% accurate the entire time, but with the Standard StatCounter Project you get the best of both worlds. Cookies for the 'Summary Stats' and IP addresses for the 'Detailed Log Analysis'!

The Advanced StatCounter Project combines the best of both worlds to use an almost fool-proof system (the only problem is AOL visitors who have cookies disabled! Not many!) but it is very server intensive, and won't be possible to provide as a free service until the cost of hardware and dedicated servers come down in price.