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During my meetings with several clients I noticed the confusion some of the web jargon is creating when they try to read results for their websites. This article will explain in plain English what all these terms mean and hopefully clear the confusion.

Hits

“I get 100,000 hits a day” – you hear someone bragging about their website.

Translation: That means exactly nothing.

“Hit” means a file is being sent by the server hosting your website to the web browser whenever a web page is loaded. Here’s an example: If you have a web page with 10 images that was loaded in a browser by 1 visitor, your hit counter will show the number 11.

Why?

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