What does "visitor" really mean in the stats

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  blogfinger · Member · Mar 19, 2013 at 2:38 am

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  In the site stats, you offer views and visitors. I presume that a visitor refers to a particular computer. So, if there are three family members who share a computer, then you might report 3 views and 1 visitor, when actually it could be 3 views and 3 unique visitors. Correct? Thanks, Paul

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  kardotim · Member · Mar 19, 2013 at 9:35 am

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  The two main units of traffic measurement are views and unique visitors. A view is counted when a visitor loads or reloads a page. A visitor is counted when we see a user or browser for the first time in a given period (day, week, month).

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