Livestats glossary

need a glossary of livestats terms.

Especially visit - what is time limit that defines when a new "visit" begins.

 

Is Smarterstats the reference for the metrics that appear in DiscountASP livestats? Am trying to what the default "time out" period is. I do not think that we have customized this, and am not sure if that's even something we can do using DiscountASP's livestats.

 

Sorry, LiveStats and SmarterStats are two different animals.

Default session time out for most stats programs is 20 minutes (I will have to check on LiveStats to see if that applies, but that's the general rule of thumb). So if a user hits your site 100 times within 20 minutes it is counted as one unique visit. On the other hand if they hit it once, then once again 21 minutes later, that's 2 unique visits. Not a perfect way to calculate visits, but pretty standard.

 

Thanks - can you verify if 20 min is the default timeout for livestats on DiscountASP?

 

I can calculate unique visits MORE accurate. I implemented my own web site statistics.

Alexei Cioina.

http://www.californiadreamhomesandland.com/Pages/ReportExplorer.aspx?ItmPath_25B7ED104E83=/English/Web%20Master/Web%20Site%20Statistics

 

Alexi,


What program are you using to implement your own site statistics?

 

I use NHibernate 1.2.1 + Sql Server 2005 + SSRS 2005.