Glossary
To use NetTracker, you will need to understand the definitions of the terms listed below:
Browser
Also known as a Web browser. Software that is used to view Web pages located on the Internet or an intranet. Two popular browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator.
Didn’t Stay
The visit length that results from a visitor viewing only one file.
Domain
A group of network addresses that are in some way related.
Each host name has a suffix that indicates to which top-level domain it belongs. There are only a limited number of top-level domains. Examples include .com (commercial business), .edu (educational institutions), .net (network organizations), .org (organizations, nonprofit), .gov (government agencies), and .mil (military).
Entry Page
The first page that a visitor viewed during a visit to a Web site. Although the entry page is often the same as a Web site’s home page, in many cases visitors enter a Web site on different pages due to different links from other Web sites.
Error
A combination of a file (usually a page) and an error message that appears when a visitor attempts to view it. Often errors occur because of broken links (links to pages that do not exist anymore) or when an unauthorized visitor attempts to access restricted pages (for example, if the visitor does not have a password to access the page).
Error Hit
A hit to a Web site that results in an error. An example of an error hit would be a hit to a page that resulted in an error message such as “file not found.”
Exit Page
The last page that a visitor viewed before exiting a Web site.
Hit
A single request to a Web server. Thus, a single HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) document containing multiple images (.JPG, .GIF, etc.) would be counted as multiple hits to a Web site. In addition, erroneous requests to transfer files are also counted as hits.
Host
A computer that is connected to the Internet. A host can be represented by a host name (for example, machine1.sane.com) and by an IP (Internet Protocol) address on the Internet (for example, 194.122.251.1).
Keyword
A word or group of words that a visitor entered into a search engine or directory to search for Web sites containing information related to these words.
New Visit
A visit by a visitor who has never been to your site before. Once a visitor has visited your site, all future visits are repeat visits. For example, if a visitor visits your site once in January, again in January and twice in February, the second visit in January and both visits in February are considered repeat visits. No visitor can ever have more than one new visit.
New Visitor
A visitor visiting your site for the first time.
Page
Any requested file except those on the Excluded Pages list. For example, a page could be an HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) document, an image, a Java applet, etc. (For details on Excluded Pages, see "Excluding Pages".)
Platform
A specific operating system (such as Windows 2000, Mac OS X, etc.).
Profile
A collection of reports that analyze the same Web site.
Referrer
A site or page that links to another page. Many times the link takes visitors to a page that is on an entirely different Web site. This is the case when a user is referred to a Web site from a search engine such as Yahoo. Sometimes users are referred to a page within the same Web site by another page in the Web site (such as the home page).
Report
A summary, breakdown, or dashboard. Reports present the data in the profile.
Robot
A nonhuman agent that visits Web sites for any purpose. For example, a robot could check pages for updates or check to ensure a site is still on the Internet.
Short Profile Name
The one-word name for the profile. This is always reports in NetTracker Lite.
Site
Also known as a Web site. A location on the Internet or an intranet.
Spider
A nonhuman agent that visits Web sites in order to index the Web sites for the agent’s search engine or directory.
Unique Error
A distinct combination of a request and error message. If multiple visitors receive the same error message while making the same request, it is only one unique error.
Unique Visitor
A distinct visitor to a Web site. Regardless of how many times you visit a Web site, you are only one unique visitor.
User
A host that accessed a Web site by entering a proper user name and password.
View (Page)
A hit to a Web page, excluding error hits and hits to user-defined files such as inline images (.JPG, .GIF, etc.), Java applets, and specific redirects.
Visit
A series of consecutive views of a Web site by the same visitor. If the visitor does not view a new Web page in the specified period of time, the next page viewed by that visitor is considered the start of a different visit.
Visitor
A person or agent who views content on a Web site.