Visitor statistics for Hantsweb

2010	Visitors	Views	Hits
January	851,821	8,876,602	18,360,769
2009	Visitors	Views	Hits
December	398,225	4,707,199	12,195,266
November	503,522	6,356,736	15,323,733
October	574,034	6,364,695	15,706,279
September	611,721	6,420,415	16,213,278
August	535,169	4,005,989	12,284,788
July	476,399	3,698,553	10,342,541
June	669,576	7,338,432	20,093,929
May	717,300	6,841,832	21,524,650
April	691,711	6,741,386	20,030,278
March	774,354	8,442,764	21,292,547
February	815,953	7,252,077	18,215,952
January	755,084	7,929,237	19,146,153
2008	Visitors	Views	Hits
December	499,573	6,129,970	15,099,548
November	633,299	6,804,267	15,907,552
October	672,839	7,558,806	17,140,572
September	655,167	7,486,029	16,320,159
August	568,104	4,542,498	10,931,535
July	630,265	6,173,056	13,840,169
June	722,214	7,330,043	15,898,469
May	400,529	4,059,135	8,991,190
April	617,665	5,774,874	13,468,004
March	706,344	7,303,216	17,618,868
February	687,618	7,851,267	16,410,793
January	717,796	8,485,127	17,910,774
2007	Visitors	Views	Hits
December	475,966	6,068,733	13,083,289
November	598,399	7,867,376	16,024,607
October	576,922	9,482,966	17,460,642
September	565,908	7,571,570	15,612,016

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).

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.

Hits - The total number of files that are viewed each month including all web pages and files embedded with that page including images files. This is not a particularly useful metric to use for comparative purposes as web pages with lots of images will return a higher hit count than a web page without any images.