Web Statistics Definitions

Hits:

Hits mean retrieval of any item, like a page or a graphic, from a website. It shows the total hits per year, per month, per day etc.

Files:

Files mean total files retrieved from a web site. It is shown files per years, per month, per day etc.

Pages:

Pages mean total pages called from a web browser for a website. It shows total pages retrieved per year, per month, per day etc.

Visits:

Visits mean when first time web browser calls a website and view website in session it is counted as one visits. It shows total Number of person visited website per year, per month, per day etc.

Bandwidth (Kbytes):

Total size of Pages/ Files viewed from a web browser is measured in Kbytes. Is called as bandwidth of a website. It is shown by per year, per month, per day, per hour etc.

Referrers:

It shown referrers for a website. Referrers means request for a website arrived from which location.

User Agents:

User agents mean type of browser has accessed the website like Mozilla/3.0, Netscape Etc

Countries:

It shows No of Visits from different Countries. Like from India N% from US N% etc

Search String

It Shows Keywords used at different search engine for finding a websites. It shows which Keyword is used frequently to find website.

Robots/Spiders visitors:

A program (Search Engine) which run over a website for submitting sites to search engine. A program that automatically fetches Web pages. Spiders are used to feed pages to search engines. It's called a spider because it crawls over the Web. Another term for these programs is WebCrawler.

(Definitions gathered from http://www.website-designing.com/statfeatures1.htm)