I am trying to make sense from the statistics provided by GoDaddy for a website.

I have tried to look at the site files using FTP, but I did not find any logs, just the stats files generated by a third party. While they look nice, I want to know how many visitors during the past day/week/month. All I see is numbers such as number of requests, and I can get a list of unique visitors that shows one IP has 7,622 requests.

I wonder if a request is a page, or every file that is called to make the page (all the images, javascript files, and php includes)?

Any idea how I can tell the boss that he has an average of ## visitors each week?

Hi Bill,

I'm new to this forum so first of all, let me say Hello to you.
If you haven't found your answer yet.. Mabye this will help.

I use go daddy to park my domains but have never hosted a site there. I use linux based servers and always go with Webalyzer in C-Panel for basic stats.

As you probably well know, spiders are always crawling your site and depending on godaddies stat engine could be giving you reports on everything.

One thing you could do is put a cookie on each page designed to give detailed stats.

I've found this invisible stat counter which is free for up to 250,00 page loads a month... ad free and will give you very detailed stats.

http://www.statcounter.com/


I have no affiliation with this site whatsoever but have used it and see that it works well.

Hope this Helps Bill, Take Care

Kevin S

An ex Dreamweaver user who is into caffine now

Try Google Analytics. It is very detailed. Will even give you a list of cities, also a world map view with dots for your hits. Pretty cool. Well worth it. FREE. Gives page views, bounce rates, all the good stuff. Your boss should be dazzeled with the reports once they begin generating.

Kevin,

I will look at the statcounter site. Thanks for the suggestion.

Hobbyist,

I use Google for everything else, but had not thought about using their stats. I will set that up since it also is free.

Billr,

Don't think you will be disappointed.