South Ayrshire Council
County Buildings
Wellington Square,
Ayr KA7 1DR
Tel: 01292 612000
Fax: 01292 612143

Customer Services
Tel: 0845 601 2020
Email: Customer Services

Opening Hours
Mon-Thurs: 08.45 - 4.45
Fri: 08.45 - 4.00

Council Services

Site Help Information

Web Statistics - Definitions

Unique Visitor:
A unique visitor is a unique IP address that has made at least 1 hit on 1 page of the web site during the current period shown by the report. If this visitor makes several visits during this period, it is counted only once. The period shown by the summary reports is a month.

Visits:
Number of visits made by all visitors.
Think "session" here, say a unique IP accesses a page, and then requests three others without an hour between any of the requests, all of the "pages" are included in the visit, therefore you should expect multiple pages per visit and multiple visits per unique visitor (assuming that some of the unique IPs are logged with more than an hour between requests).

Pages:
The number of "pages" logged. Pages are reserved for HTML files, not images or other files requested as a result of loading a "Page". A page view is one view of one webpage on the website.

Hits:
Any files successfully requested from a visitor's browser (including HTML pages, image files and documents downloaded). Hits from search indexing tools are filtered out.

Bandwidth:
Total number of bytes downloaded.

HTML Files:
Hypertext Markup Language. HTML files are web pages.

IP Address:
Internet Protocol. A unique computer address.