Re: How can I measure web hits from my web browser/end user perspective....?

From: Malcolm Dew-Jones (yf110_at_vtn1.victoria.tc.ca)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: 16 Sep 2004 21:30:36 -0800

Chris Nelson (fimafeng@yahoo.com) wrote:
: Hello:
: I know that for a web server..... there are many ways to measure the
: "hits", when accessing a web page. However, what I need to be able to
: do... is determine that when downloading a web page.... how many
: "hits" comprise that web page.(From an end user perspective)

: Am I correct in that an accurate # of hits representing a web page
: could be determined by viewing the source of a web page and adding up
: the files that are listed in that code? Is there a piece of
: code/software that does this?

: Basically,
: I have a situation where I need to demonstrate to semi-technical
: people that a single web page can be comprised of many hits. (And in
: my case more importantly..... hits do not in any way directly
: correlate to time spent an individual web page and or site.

: Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The above shows a great deal of confusion in your mind about web pages.
By "semi-technical people" perhaps you mean yourself.

That would explain why you posted this question in a perl group, instead
of in some group dedicated to web page issues.

However, with that excuse in mind, and guessing somewhat about what you
really mean, perhaps you mean that you think that the contents displayed
in the window of a web browser might sometimes require more than one file
to be downloaded from the web. That is true.

To display what looks like a single "web page" will commonly require
downloading multiple files. Perhaps the most notable situation is that
each picture in a web page requires its own file, so if a web page shows
two pictures then there are at least three downloads - the html file, plus
two picture files.

As for "time spent", and again I am guessing what it is you are really
trying to ask, no, the time spent looking at a web page has nothing to do
with any of the above.

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