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Are Hits Figures Accurate?

Firestorm_westyFirestorm_westy Registered Users Posts: 9 Beginner grinner
edited April 4, 2005 in SmugMug Support
> 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?

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    CameronCameron Registered Users Posts: 745 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2005
    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! mwink.gif
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    Firestorm_westyFirestorm_westy Registered Users Posts: 9 Beginner grinner
    edited April 3, 2005
    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! mwink.gif
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    Firestorm_westyFirestorm_westy Registered Users Posts: 9 Beginner grinner
    edited April 4, 2005
    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
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    CameronCameron Registered Users Posts: 745 Major grins
    edited April 4, 2005
    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.. ;)
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    Firestorm_westyFirestorm_westy Registered Users Posts: 9 Beginner grinner
    edited April 4, 2005
    Thanks
    That's great, thanks.

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

    Westy
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