[analog-help] newbie wonders about the difference between requests, and page requests

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Alison Blackman Dunham <askalisonb at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>> HI everyone:  I'm new to this list, and I signed up specifically to
>> better understand what kind of traffic is coming to my web site,
>> www.advicesisters.net  .  Every day I see statistics for "requests"
>> and "page requests."  I have tried to figure out what the difference
>> is, but I can't seem to find a definite answer online anywhere.  So
>> I'm hoping someone will tell me what the significance of both of
>> these statistics is. In addition, I'm always asked by potential
>> advertisers how many page views I get. There isn't anything on the
>> stats for page views so I'm wondering....is either the requests or
>> page requests the same thing?
>>
>> I apologize for asking what might seem to be a very basic question,
>> but it's been bothering me for some time, and so I finally decided to
>> put myself out on this list, and ask.
>>
>> Can anyone supply a reasonably non-technical answer? Thanks in
>> advance if you can.
>>
>> Alison

When someone point's their browser at http://www.advicesisters.net/ the 
browser sends an initial request to the server. That will usually be 
logged as a request for "GET /" or "GET /index.html". When the browser 
receives that page back, it starts to display it, and finds that there 
are 15 images from your site that it needs to display, so it sends 15 
more requests to your server ("GET /backgrou.jpg", GET /alison06.jpg", 
etc).

So a single "hit" or "page view" on your site generates 16 entries in 
your logfile. Analog will show that as 1 "page request" and 16 
"requests" (every "page request" is a request, but not every request is 
a "page request").

There's a page in the Ananlog documentation that explains the 
definitions that Analog uses:

http://analog.cx/docs/defns.html

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