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How is visit count created and what does it mean?

robs268@gmail.com
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I am being asked to look into a user at my company. What we want to know is what does the visit count mean? Is it every time you visit a page? If you re-load the page, will the visit count be incremented by one? If a page grabs data through some kind of query where it goes back and gets it, is the visit count incremented?

Thanks,

Robs

I am being asked to look into a user at my company. What we want to know is what does the visit count mean? Is it every time you visit a page? If you re-load the page, will the visit count be incremented by one? If a page grabs data through some kind of query where it goes back and gets it, is the visit count incremented? Thanks, Robs

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robs268@gmail.com
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I would like to add more to the question. Attached is an example of what I am trying to find out. It appears from their browser history that this user went to hulu went to family guy, and started watching a specific episode. The visit count for the specific video is 13 or 8 depending on the episode. My question is: did they go to that specific site 8 or 13 times, or did visit count increment because more data was being pulled down through that URL, or was that URL being updated/refreshed because of the show?

Thanks,

Robert

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Is this exported from Firefox history? Firefox history does not include background requests, such as the chunks of an MP4 video or other content requested by a page.

A reload in the same tab does not seem to count as a new visit. However, clicking in the address bar and pressing Enter to resubmit the URL does seem to count as a new visit.

I don't think a user would manually load a page 7 times in a row within the same minute, and then another 5 times in the next minute. There may be something about the page design that caused that, or an add-on such as a video downloader might be triggering the requests.

Modified by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer