Glossary

404 Error

File not found error. It appears if a user requested a file, which doesn't exist in the site.

Authenticated User

A user which provided authentication information in the request to the site. This information is usually provided if a site requires authentication so it's 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 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 (Request)

A request for a web page (including static and dynamic web pages).

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 each of which downloads 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 with getting them from the site.

Page View

A request for a web page file (including static and dynamic web pages).

Spider

(Robot) A program which automatically gets information from sites. Spiders gather information for search engines, extract emails, 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 by default.