AW Stats question

BungeeBones · 05-13-2008, 04:34 PM

In my websites stats, AW Stats is telling me that 93.7% of the visitors are adding my link to their favorites. That has to be an error right?

Does anyone have an idea about what might be going on?

Thanks

marcbarak · 05-14-2008, 07:24 AM

send me a screen shot of the notice on this marc (@) barakhosting.com

TechSup · 05-14-2008, 11:42 AM

This might help you a bit: http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/..._glossary.html

BungeeBones · 05-14-2008, 12:31 PM

Thanks, both of you.

Meyers, that glossary helped.

It says
"Note that this number is just an indicator that is in most case higher than true value. The reason is that even IE browser sometimes make hit on favicon without an "Add to favourites" action by a user."

I use includes in my php code a lot and AWstats seems to have a problem picking up that they are all part of the same page. I don't think any of them load the favicon again though. I would love to believe the figure but there is no way that it is that popular - my wallet is too empty

TechSup · 05-14-2008, 12:34 PM

You are more than welcome Bungee. You also have to note that spiders do goto your site as well and are considered hits as well. Though your 97% is a algorythm number as it doesn't give a complete analysis of what your really attracting in.

If you have any other questions just let us know.