Re: [Summary-Talk] Data Interpretation and Question

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Could the traffic spike of visits without page views have been caused by
external images in the e-mail that are hosted on the sender's web site?

In other words, if someone opens an e-mail and his e-mail client allows
external images to be loaded, it would add a hit to the visitor log for
that external image.

If I understand correctly, no page actually gets viewed in this case
(unless the person clicks the link in their e-mail), but the image
download might get recorded as a visit?


Kevin



Jason Linhart wrote:
  > 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.
  >

  > 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.
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