Hi, “hits” are just post reads. Basically the plugin adds a “hit” for a post every time the post “single” page is displayed (trying to discard views by search engines spiders).
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thanks for the answer
We have google analytics and the number of one post that show the plugin is different than the number for this post in analylitics.
So i do not understand. Perhaps is the spiders that you comment.
Also i look in google and in this article they say that is different hits, visits
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090307131515AAUDR82
I think they comment that if in my post there is 10 images with links it is 10 hits.
The same post with 0 images is 1 hit.
is it correct?
Hi,
looking at Google Analytics, the best match for our “hits” is their “page views”, because the counter gets updated every time the page is refreshed (images and links hits are not counted).
I chose the term “hits” because in WordPress there is distinction between page and post, so I’d better say correctly “page/post views” … but “hits” is shorter 🙂
Usually the stats in Analytics are lower because of their better spider detecting engine; also, the Analytics detection code is javascript/client based, so if for some reason (low bandwith, js disabled, user quickly switching back) their code can’t complete the request the page view isn’t added.
