more than 100 % hits reported on a gallery

richdowrichdow Registered Users Posts: 6 Beginner grinner
edited November 14, 2006 in SmugMug Pro Sales Support
How can that be?

have I done something wrong?

richard

catman

http://www.ecomplink.com
http://www.richdow.smugmug.com

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited November 11, 2006
    richdow wrote:
    How can that be?

    have I done something wrong?

    richard

    catman

    http://www.ecomplink.com
    http://www.richdow.smugmug.com

    Hi Rich,

    We'll help :D Can you give us a link to the gallery in question please?
  • richdowrichdow Registered Users Posts: 6 Beginner grinner
    edited November 12, 2006
    cat gallery
    Andy wrote:
    Hi Rich,

    We'll help :D Can you give us a link to the gallery in question please?

    the link is http://richdow.smugmug.com/gallery/1137713

    cat gallery inside animals gallery
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited November 12, 2006
    richdow wrote:
    the link is http://richdow.smugmug.com/gallery/1137713

    cat gallery inside animals gallery

    Are you referring to this?

    Here's a bit of explanation: "Stats details:

    These stats represent "real" hits only, not cached hits. Chances are good that a high percentage of these "hits" are unique photo viewings, since the vast majority of web browsers will cache the images.

    Every time someone views one of your photos, at a specific size, for the first time, a "hit" is logged, and you see that statistic here. Every time they come back and view that photo, their view is NOT logged a 2nd, 3rd, etc time.

    When they view a different SIZE of that same photo, though, another "hit" is logged, again, once only. So someone who sees your "thumbnail" and then also sees your "Medium" sized photo will create 2 "hits", hence the way the graph breaks down your stats.

    The most important numbers are probably those for Medium, Large, and Original, since that indicates how many people looked at your larger photos after seeing thumbnails (so-called "conversion ratio"), but that's really entirely up to you.

    Of course, linking directly to large photos on eBay, a message forum, or in an email will dramatically skew the ratio, so take it with a grain of salt."
  • richdowrichdow Registered Users Posts: 6 Beginner grinner
    edited November 12, 2006
    yes that is the gallery
    I think I got it now.

    Next what is Large photos on google?
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited November 14, 2006
    richdow wrote:
    I think I got it now.

    Next what is Large photos on google?
    I'm sorry, could you elaborate please?
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