Terms Used

Bandwidth - Bandwidth represents the total number of kilobytes that were sent to people visiting FSBO Madison. Bandwidth includes all resources requested by the users.

Hits - A hit represents a request to the site for a file such as an image, a web page, or a CGI script. One web page may contain several related resources, and as a result, a visitor viewing one web page may trigger several hits. Hits generated as a result of an error (either a 400 or 500 level error) are not counted as actual hits to the site, and are kept separate from successful hits.

Page Views - A page view is a successful request for a file on the web site that is considered to be a page. Views generated as a result of an error (either a 400 or 500 level error) are not counted as actual views for the site, and are kept separate from successful views.

Spider - A spider is an automated program that searches and indexes web sites, usually with the intent of providing information for search engines.

Visits - Visits represent the total number of times people have visited the web site. A visit is counted whenever a web site user requests one or more files from the web server. If the user becomes idle for more than a certain amount of time (usually 20 minutes), a new visit is generated when they come back.