Could someone explain this to me? (Awstats)

[heirJORDAN]

I've set up a few websites with nothing more than a splash page to monitor traffic. Awstats shows a substantially larger amount of pages and hits?

For example, 10 uniques, but 15 pages/hits. :?:

How is this possible if there's only one actual PAGE on the domain?

 

[Theo]

Uniques are individual visits. Hits can be return visits by the same visitor, during that period. It can also be a direct pull of image via search engines.

 

[rngrdanny22]

For one, Awstats is complete garbage. From what I remember, they count bot hits as well (which are pointless in terms of unique visitor traffic).

Use Google Analytics.

 

[Theo]

No, bots are counted separately. It's far from garbage but each to their own

 

[rngrdanny22]

My history with Awstats:

Setup a brand-new site and was surprised to see that I was getting about 40-50 uniques per day, but being a forum, wasn't getting any new members. I decided to install Google Analytics, and checked back at the end of the month.

Awstats total uniques for the month: 792
Google Analytics for the month: 6


Quite a discrepancy...