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In the stats how can I find the unique visitors and hits? Is "Successful requests" the same as a hit?

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Determining the number of "unique visitors" is truly a bit of web "black magic - voodoo - prestidigitation".

There are a *lot* of things to consider when tryhing to determine if a give *page* request is from a "unique" visitor - hence programmer employ things like sessions and cooklies in an attempt to sort all this. Your traditional "stats' package can, at best, only *guess* at whether a page request is "unique" without such programming in place (usually by making some evaluations based on IP address and time).

A "successful request" is very different, and only indicates that a request (whether for a page, or a page element) was successfully completed. In the DH provided stats, there is an accounting of successful request for *pages*, as opposed to just a successful request (for an image in a page, for example), but this *does not* indicate a uniqueness of the visitor/computer making the request in any way.

There is a lot of information about the DH Stats in the wiki, and you can google for additional information on how to determine unique visitors. Good Luck!

--rlparker