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COSTARICANEWS
| Monday 23 August 2010 |
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Compete.com
Places
Inside
Costa
Rica On
Top
Compete.com,
a web
analytics
company
tracking
a
diverse
sample
of
2,000,000+
U.S.
Internet
users
that
have
given
permission
to
analyze
the web
pages
they
visit
and ask
them
questions
via
surveys,
has
placed
Insidecostarica.com
in first
place
for July
2010, in
terms of
"Unique
Visitors"
over its
main
competition.
With a
point
score of
24.256,
ICR has
shown a
+85.94%
change
over the
month of
June and
+21.23%
for the
year.
Click
here for
the
complete
analytics
by
compete.com
Site
analytics
is a
important
tool for
websites
to
monitor
their
visitor
activity
and
overall
performance.
In
contrast
to
counting
"hits",
many
websites
today
place
more
importance
on
Unique
Visitor,
a
statistic
that
describes
the unit
of
traffic
to a
website,
counting
each
visitor
only
once in
the time
frame of
the
report.
This
statistic
is
relevant
to site
publishers
and
advertisers
as a
measure
of a
site's
true
audience
size.
Web
analytics
means
analyzing
what
consumers
do
across
the
entire
web, not
just
what
they do
within a
particular
site,
and that
marketers
can use
this
rich
information
across
the
entire
company,
not just
for
online
media
planning
or site
design
decisions.
Powered
by the
largest
pool of
online
consumer
behavior
data in
the
industry,
Compete.com
is the
only
online
competitive
intelligence
service
that
combines
site and
search
analytics
in one
site to
help you
quickly
master
online
marketing.
With
Compete.com,
you can
identify
rival
search
marketing
strategies
to take
your SEM
and SEO
efforts
to the
next
level,
and stay
on top
of
rivals
with
site
metrics
and
audience
profiles.
Hit
and
visitors,
what are
the
differences?
In
a
technical
definition
a hit is
described
as "each
file
sent to
a
browser
by a web
server",
while a
visit
happens
when
someone
or
something
(a
robot)
visits a
site. It
consists
of one
or more
page
views/
hits.
One
visitor
can make
multiple
visits
to your
site.
In terms
of
counting,
one
visitor
to a
site
than
create
tens or
hundreds
of hits,
as a
webpage
is made
up of a
group of
files
that
come
together
and
shown on
a
browser.
A site
like ICR
can
produce
millions
of hits
in a
month
given
that
complexity
of each
page and
the
number
of files
that
have to
be
transferred
from the
server
to the
visitor's
browser,
each
file
accumulating
a big
number.
In the
past
website
developers
used to
break up
an
image,
for
example,
into
little
bits of
pieces,
for one
the
connection
speed of
the
internet
was not
what is
is today
as a
large
image
file
would
take too
long
(more
than 30
seconds)
to load,
and
breaking
it up
would
accumulate
hits,
that was
an
indicator
of a
site's
success
at the
time.
Today,
Page
Views
and
Unique
Visitors
are more
relevant
than
hits,
especially
to
advertisers
who can
better
judge
the
success
of their
advertising
campaign
from the
number
of
unique
visitors,
visitors
and page
views
for a
specific
amount
of time
(usually
shown in
months),
giving
the
advertiser
an idea
whether
the site
is worth
paying
for
advertising.
Unique
Visitor
A unique
visitor
is a
unique
IP
address
that has
made at
least
one hit
on one
page of
the web
site
during a
certain
period
of time.
If this
visitor
makes
more
than one
visit
during
this
period
of time,
it is
counted
only
once as
a unique
visit.
*Basically,
if I
visit
your
site 1
time
today, I
am
counted
as a
unique
visitor.
If I
come
back to
your
site 10
more
times
today,
my
visits
are
counted
as 1
unique
visit
and 10
visitors.
Visitor
A
visitor
is also
known as
a
session
or a
user
session.
It is
the
total
number
of
people
who
access a
website
over a
certain
period
of time.
Unlike
unique
visitors
which is
a net
number,
a
visitor
is a
gross
number.
This
means
two
"sessions"
by a
single
user
would
count as
two
visitors.
*Basically,
if I
visit
your
site 5
times
today, I
am
counted
as 1
unique
visitor
and then
as 5
visitors
for the
day.
Page
Views
The
number
of times
a
particular
web page
is
requested
from a
Web
host's
server
and
delivered
to a
users
browser.
The
number
of page
views
delivered
across
an
entire
website
can be
used to
demonstrate
the
volume
of
traffic
a
website
receives.
*Basically,
this
tells
you how
many
pages
are
being
viewed
by your
visitors.
Hits
This
generally
means
ALL
requests
from a
web
server
including
requests
by a web
browser
for html
pages,
jp's,
gif's
and
other
images.
Hits is
a phrase
often
thrown
around
but is
generally
not very
meaningful
in
quantitfying
search
engine
traffic.
*Hits
count
every
single
thing on
your
page
that
loads.
It's not
an
accurate
measure
of
anything
worthwhile.
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