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Term
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Definition |
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Authentication |
A username
and password was used to access a resource on a admin protected
section |
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Bandwidth |
The measure of data transfer
to users of the server in megabytes (MB) |
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Browser |
Web navigation client being
used by the visitor (User agent) |
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Broken
Links |
There is a missing document
or image on the server which a user tried to access |
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Country |
Originating
country of visitor, based on the country code of hostname |
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Domain
Name |
The
organization, company, or ISP of the visiting user |
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Entry
Page |
The page by
which visitors enter your site |
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Exit Page |
The last
page people see before leaving your site |
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File
Request |
The file
that is sent to the visitor through a download or click |
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Hit |
Any action
that takes place on the web server, each image on a page counts
as a hit |
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Hostname |
The
numerical IP number or translated full hostname of the visitor,
identifies a unique user |
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Homepage
Hit |
A request
for the main root document of your web server |
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Paths
Through Site |
The map of a
visitors decided click path through your site |
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Referrer |
Web site
page and location showing how your visitor clicked through to
your site |
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Return
Visitor |
A single
user that has returned to your site after at least 24-hours and
was previously counted as a unique visitor |
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Operating
System |
Type of
operating system the visitor is browsing your site with |
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Status
Code |
The web
server returns a value of success or failure for each hit |
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Search
Engine Keyword |
The keywords
words a user entered in a popular server engine service to find
your web site |
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Spiders |
Search
engines and agents that are traversing and indexing the Internet
request a file from your web server called robots.txt,
this is used as a metric to determine visiting spiders,
crawlers, and indexers. |
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Unique
Visitor |
A single
user that has not visited your website before, based on hostname
or numerical IP address |
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Webpage
View |
Accounting
of the number of known web documents that were viewed |
