Re: [Summary-Talk] Data Interpretation and Question

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your traffic spike was probably mostly visits with only errors. An error
can count as a visit and won't count as a hit or a page view.

A good way to get an idea of what is going on is to look at the various
overviews. Several of them have graphs which should show the traffic
spike. If you place the mouse over the spike on the graph various bits
of information will be displayed in the text box below the graph. Once
of those will no doubt provide a useful bit of information.

The only way to get visits for a specific page on a specific day is to
set a date range for just that day, process the logs, and then look at
the visits column on the Content : Pages report. You can see hits for
the last 31 days for each page by putting the mouse over the mini-graph
in the Content : Pages : Over Time report and a little popup will appear
showing hits for the day the mouse is over.

Jason


Erik Gorka wrote:
> 
> Basically I'm seeing a spike on visits for a site on a day in which an
> email had gone out containing a URL for a specific page. That's all
> well and good, but if you start to look at the breakdown of page
> visits, I see the spike but not the people. For instance, the Overview
> is showing 3,171 visits across the site on that one day, but I only
> see 80 hits on that day for the page specified in the email, and only
> 28 hits for the home page of the site. The rest of the pages in the
> site break down similarly. How is that possible? Even counting up all
> the pages of the site I'm not seeing 3000 visits, especially since I
> would imagine "hits" as defined would be greater than "visits".

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