Hits are NOt the same as Unique Visitors
1,000,000,000 is One Billion
Google gets 1,100,000,000 Unique MONTHLY Visitors
YOU TUBE gets 1,000,000,000 Unique MONTHLY Visitors.
AMAZON gets 500,000,000 Unique MONTHLY Visitors
What are the differences between a HIT, a Unique Visitor and a Pageview?
The term “hit” (as in web hit/web site hits) is often used inaccurately. You might hear someone say that their website received ten thousand hits. But what does that mean? It might mean that their web site was visited by ten thousand people or maybe it was visited ten thousand times. But one person could visit a web site ten thousand times. Web servers logs and analytical tools consider a “hit” to be any request made for a file. (e.g. Every image that loads on your screen is a “hit.”) One web site visitor can easily trigger dozens of hits to web server. So you can see why the term “hit” is a very imprecise and ultimately useless term. http://webmasterfaqs.org/hits-pageviews-unique-visitors/
Unique Visitors
It’s not enough to measure how many visits/visitors your site receives because one person can visit a web site multiple time. Generally web traffic is discussed in terms of “unique visitors” over a period of time.
Your web site could receive an average of 1000 unique visitors a day, but that doesn’t mean you have 30,000 (1000 x 30 days) unique visitors a month. Many of your visitors could be “return visitors” who frequent your web site a couple time a week. Web traffic logs/analytics can track how many unique visitors your web site receives in a day, week or month so you can better understand the nature of you web traffic.
Commercial websites Like Macys, Best Buy, Sears, Wal-Mart eBay and Amazon get from 18 million to 164 million Unique Visitors each month. If a site that got 18 million unique visitors monthly added up each month over two years, that would be a total of 432 million, assuming no person every visited twice. The numbers from Bethel, like all statistics from Bethel are inflated, to wow you, the numbers are distorted and half truths.
Unigue Visits are not "Hits" the WT is counting Hits and downloads. If, 7 million JW's, visiting jw.org , only ONCE a WEEK, is 28,000,000 a month or 672,000,000 visits by 7 million jw's going only ONCE a WEEK to the site over 24 months ?
But that does not count the number of PAGES they visit which multiplies the number of views recorded depending on their tracking software.
SIMON What kind of Stats are on THIS site ? Do you have tracking software ? Here is some free tracking software I found.
http://www.awstats.org
What is AWStats
AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly. It can analyze log files from all major server tools like Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and a lot of other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers, mail servers and some ftp servers.