Are Hits Figures Accurate?

Firestorm_westy

> I have set-up my smugmug page, and let Family and Friends etc now
> about it.
>
> In 5 days my stats show 2309 hits, and 876 photos have been viewed.
>
> Is this really true? I can't believe that it can be right.
>
> Do the stats pages on Control Panel really tell the real story?

Cameron

Firestorm_westy wrote:

> I have set-up my smugmug page, and let Family and Friends etc now
> about it.
>
> In 5 days my stats show 2309 hits, and 876 photos have been viewed.
>
> Is this really true? I can't believe that it can be right.
>
> Do the stats pages on Control Panel really tell the real story?

It's possible that someone was watching a slideshow and just let it run for a long time.. Either that or you've got a lot of family and friends!

Firestorm_westy

I only sent the link to 4 people !

CSwinton wrote:

It's possible that someone was watching a slideshow and just let it run for a long time.. Either that or you've got a lot of family and friends!

Firestorm_westy

Forums..
If I link to a smugmug image from a forum, does each 'read' of my thread count as a hit? This could explain the huge viewing numbers on some of my 'small' images

Cameron

Firestorm_westy wrote:

If I link to a smugmug image from a forum, does each 'read' of my thread count as a hit? This could explain the huge viewing numbers on some of my 'small' images

Yes - every time the image is loaded, either from an external link or an internal page-view it counts a "hit". Now (as stated in the help file), if *I* read that same message (in which you've linked to an image) a number of times, it would likely only count as 1 hit since my browser will cache it (unless I have that turned off). It would be nice if the stats could differentiate between actual gallery views and linked-views but there are other features I'd rather see first..

Firestorm_westy

Thanks
That's great, thanks.

Didn't think I was that popular!
Thanks for the reply.

Westy