Thanks! I generally never even look at the web stats, but while waiting for
Survivor to come on I thought I'd check it out. Folks seems to come in,
look at a page or two and leave, generally 56 secs per visit. LOL!!

K

"GrlIntrpted" wrote in message
et...
It would depend on the script that the counter was written in. CGI scripts
(Common Gate Interface) are used for counters and generally, unique hits
means that it's a new visitor, it can be based on your IP address, whether
you have a cookies sitting in your computer from a previous visit,
etc.....Generally the counter software gives the webmaster the ability to
generate reports (that can be used for marketing, surveys, data
collecting,
statistical work etc...) that tell him at which time a person from a
particular IP visited, (Some of this are created to resolve DNA's too,
this
way they know exactly where you visited from, and well... who you are ,
how long that person spend on the web site, how long they spent on each
page, which links they used, what monitor resolution they use, what kind
of
operating system they use, what browser they used to get to the website,
etc......).. sorry, that's way more than you asked. But generally unique
visitor is considered a user that either has no cookies from the website
in
their machine, or someone who is really a new visitor .

Hope that it helps,
Mariana



"K Barrett" wrote in message
news:PtAnc.15939$z06.2720797@attbi_s01...
actually on topic, since its about an orchid website, LOL!!

What does 'unique visitor' mean? Supposedly the AOS Pacific Central
website
has been getting an average of 1469 'unique visitors' this year, and I'd
like to think all this traffic isn't just me doing my webmastering
chores.

So is a unique visitor a different web address each time? And how do it
know? Email addresses?

K Barrett
BSP: http://www.aospacificcentral.org