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How do "Hits" and "Downloads" differ?

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:32 pm
by boxcarwilli
I have a "Basic" report. Parameter = href. In the report output I get "Hits" and "Downloads". What is the difference? Hits is always the larger number.


Holy crap, I cant believe you guys lost all your forum posts, thats bad.

Marc

Re: How do "Hits" and "Downloads" differ

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:32 pm
by Abacre
boxcarwilli wrote:I have a "Basic" report. Parameter = href. In the report output I get "Hits" and "Downloads". What is the difference? Hits is always the larger number.


"Hits" - number of requests. For example if you have test.zip file on
your web site. People may request the file but did not download it.
"Downloads" - is a number of complete ("real") downloads.

Read also the page:
http://www.abacre.com/ala/manual/visits_hits_req.htm

boxcarwilli wrote:Holy crap, I cant believe you guys lost all your forum posts, thats bad.

Sandy but it's true our hosting provider did not make db backup. So
now we switched to another hosting provider.

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:32 pm
by boxcarwilli
Not only switched, I hoped you sued as well.

The referenced help doc page doesnt speak about "downloads".

Great, your comparrision of the two makes sense.