As part of your Mpower Web Hosting services, we provide you with a variety of insightful statistics that will help you analyze your site's traffic.

Click on any of these terms to help you interpret your site's Web statistics:

Unique Visitors
Number of Visits
Pages Number
Hits
Bandwidth
Days of the Week
Hours
Visitor Domains/Countries
Hosts
Robots/Spiders
Pages/URL
File Type
Operating System
Connect to Site From
Key Phrases on Search Engines
HTTP Error Codes

Unique Visitors
How many individuals visited your website. When an IP address/visitor comes to your website, it is counted as one unique visit. If that visitor returns later in the day or even later that month, the visitor will not be counted again. The Unique Visitors number tells you how many different people visit your site.

Number of Visits
How many times people come to your site. For example, if your number of visits is 100, your website has been visited 100 times. This is not a unique number; this is the total number of visits and can include multiple visits by the same visitor.

Pages Number
How many times an actual page was viewed, whether by a unique user or the same user. For example, if you were on a page in your website and you clicked the refresh button, that would count as two page views.

Hits
A single action on the Web server as it appears in the log file. For instance, a visitor downloading a single file is logged as a single hit, while a visitor requesting a Web page including two images registers as three hits on the server. One hit is the request for the .html page, and two additional hits are requests for the downloaded image files. While the volume of hits is an indicator of Web server traffic, it's not an accurate reflection of how many pages are being viewed.

Bandwidth
Gives a general idea of how much bandwidth your site is using. This is not the same as the bandwidth that is counted against your account. This feature only counts Web visits and the bandwidth they use; it doesn't count FTP traffic or any other traffic your account may use.

Days of the Week
Shows how many hits you get on certain days of the week. This is great for a quick look at your busiest days.

Hours
Gives you a quick look at your site's peak hours.

Visitor Domains/Countries
Where your site's visitors are coming from. For example, if a visitor with an Internet account through mpowercom.net and went to your website, it counts as a mark for the .net domain. This feature tracks all top-level domains, such as .com, .net, .org, .ca, and more.

Hosts
Tells you the IP Address or name of visitors' connections.

Robots/Spiders
Robots and spiders are programs sent through the Internet by search engines like Yahoo and Google. They search your website, store key phrases and tags in their program, and then put them into search engines under your domain name. Use this feature to see if search engines are visiting your site and how frequently they are coming back for updates.

Pages/URL
Reveals which pages on your site are most popular, ranked from most to least visited.

File Type
Compiles a list of most popular file types (HTML, JPG, PDF, etc.) on your site.

Operating System
Displays which operating system your site's visitors are using. This feature is helpful in developing websites and ensuring your site is compatible with your visitors' operating systems.

Connect to Site From
Shows where people came from to reach your site, such as a link from another site or a browser bookmark. It's useful for tracking traffic and testing which online advertisements and links bring the most traffic to your site.

Key Phrases on Search Engines
Shows what phrases people typed into search engines to find your site.

HTTP Error Codes
Alerts you to any problems your visitors encounter on your website. This is a good feature if you have a missing page somewhere; you'll see that people are getting a "404" error (missing page) and you can look into it.