Viewing the statistics summary
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Viewing the statistics summary |
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The Statistics Summary report provides a quick overview of roughly how many people are viewing your blog, your blog's transfer usage, and counts of the page views you're getting from people reading your blog using browsers or news aggregators.
| 1. | From the Publisher Control Panel, click the Dashboard tab. |
| 2. | From the options list, click the Site Stats link. The Web Stats page opens: |
| 3. | From the calendar in the left panel, select the date for which you want to view site stats. The General Summary area then displays the stats for the day you chose, and for that whole month. The summary includes: |
| • | Distinct hosts served |
This is a count of the individual computers that accessed at least one page of your blog during that day and month.
By "distinct", we mean that if the same computer accesses your blog more than once, it will still count as only one host.
Note that while you can use this number to estimate the number of readers you had on a particular day or month, it counts computers, not people. A computer that gets used by several people who all read your blog still counts as just one distinct host.
| • | Bytes transferred |
Whenever someone views a page on your blog, information is transferred from the system's servers to their computer. This statistic is a measure of the amount of transferred information for that day and month.
To give you a sense of perspective, both Tolstoy's novel War and Peace and a typical medium-to-high quality picture taken on a 3-megapixel camera at 2016-by-1512 resolution are each said to represent 1 million bytes (or 1 megabyte) of data.
| • | HTML requests |
This is the number of pages from your blog viewed using a web browser during that day and month.
| • | XML requests |
This is the number of pages from your blog viewed using a news aggregator during that day and month.
| • | Total page views |
This is the sum of all the pages viewed during that day and month.
| 4. | To view more detailed stats, click one of the links in the Detailed Stats area. For more details on this area, see Viewing Detailed Stats. |