Is Your Site Performing?

Web stats is a feature of your POOLCORP Web site. Each month, a report is generated detailing information about your site’s visitors. That information includes:
• Accessed files
• Paths through the site
• Referring pages
• Search engines
• Browsers
• Operating systems and more
 
Because the report shows you which pages on your site are receiving the most attention and how visitors are reaching the site, you can use it to guide your marketing decisions and any future changes to the site.
 
You can access your Web stats information from any page of this site by entering your Web site name in the field to the right, or by entering “/reports” at the end of your site’s Web address. The report is updated every month, so it’s important to print the statistics from each month if you want to keep a record of them. If you need the statistics from a particular month, we can generate that report for you at an additional cost. If you have questions, please contact customer service at 1.866.463.7883.
 

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Glossary of Terms
 
• Authenticated User – A user who provided authentication information in the request to the site. This information is usually provided if a site requires authentication so its visitors have to specify user name and password.
 
• Bandwidth – Amount of traffic transmitted from the site. 
 
• Cached Request – A request that was cached on a client. If a browser has a cached copy of the requested file, it sends a special request to a server so it sends the file only if it hasn't been modified. Otherwise the browser uses the cached copy of the file, and the request is logged on the server as the cached one. 
 
• Entry Page – First page visited by a user on the site.
 
• Exit Page – Last page visited by a user on the site.
 
• Failed Request – A request which caused an error.
 
• Hit – A request for any file (page, image, etc). 
 
• Host – A computer connected to Internet. User hosts are shown in the reports as IP addresses or domain names.
 
• Incomplete Request – A request in response to which the server sent only a part of a file. Many download managers download files using several threads, with each download a part of the file, so it is logged as several incomplete requests. Incomplete requests may also occur if the files (pages, images) are too large and/or users have problems getting them from the site. 
 
• Page View – A request for a page file.
 
• Spider (Robot) – A program which automatically gets information from sites. Spiders gather information for search engines, extract e-mails, check links, etc.
 
• Total Unique IPs – A number of different user IP addresses or domain names.
 
• Visitor – The program determines number of visitors by the IP addresses. If a request from an IP address came after some time (timeout) since the last request from this IP, it is considered to belong to a different visitor. The timeout is set to 30 minutes.
 
• 404 Error – File not found error. It appears if a user requested a file which doesn't exist in the site.