Visitor statistics for Hantsweb

2012	Unique visitors	Page views
March	622,331	5,412,118
February	604,907	4,823,615
January	638,202	5,379,331
2011	Unique visitors	Page views
December	392,942	2,802,383
November	581,036	4,978,222
October	570,579	4,709,187
September	572,059	5,042,307
August	463,046	3,194,431
July	543,045	4,562,291
June	557,350	5,073,296
May	555,046	5,152,145
April	473,102	3,848,180
March	579,011	4,699,612
February	379,630	4,498,917
January	433,411	5,290,321
2010	Unique visitors	Page views
December	635,026	7,847,760
November	517,553	8,062,832
October	557,205	5,857,149
September	573,546	6,304,923
August	390,818	3,404,878
July	513,729	5,372,467
June	382,325	4,523,278
May	536,589	6,451,607
April	527,921	5,877,331
March	664,974	9,344,252
February	437,762	5,379,260
January	851,821	8,876,602

Unique visitor - A visitor to the site. Visitors are counted using the visitor's IP address, that is the numerical identifier for each of the visitor's internet service provider. Each visitor's user session is determined by grouping together all the requests that come from the same IP address within a given time; industry standards for time spent in any single user session is 30 minutes. Once this 30 minutes has passed, the visitor will be counted as a new visitor. Visits are defined as the number of web pages that have been viewed by one visitor. One visitor can have many visits to the site within their single user session (30 minutes).

Page views - The number of times the pages are viewed. Each time a visitor views a web page it is counted. The total Views for Hantsweb each month are made up of the totals of all web pages viewed throughout the site. This metric is the most useful one for identifying the popularity of our pages.