ajax.sys-con.com— Remember when web site traffic was talked about in terms of "hits"? You'd read about how many millions of hits Netscape got per month and other sites bragged about getting 30,000 hits a day.
Sep 14, 2006View in Crawl 4
Hits = loads of a file on the server, including images.No one measures traffic with hits, it's measured in 'visits' or 'pageviews'. Hits is completley irrelevant and a word that stupid people use when theyshould be saying 'pageviews'.
Hits are very relevant for sites that don't depend on the user for revenue (for example, Digg, Slashdot, or any other site you don't pay for yet somehow makes money through ads and stuff). Why? Because they depend on having users come to their site and see the advertisements (not all ads are pay-per-click, FYI).They're also important for other sites in that you can't have online customers if no one visits your site. You can have the greatest deals on Earth if no one visits your site. Also, more visitors means more potential clicks which is something that might attract businesses to advertise on your site.
On almost any ajax page, you can still track "hits" as well as "actions" (which used to be hits because they refreshed the page). These AJAX pages still have to request data from the server. To do thi they usually submit some info to a server-side page...and that "hit" is registered...it's just registered to the background script, and not the AJAX page.
RSS and Ajax are two tools that work great together when it comes to publishing content. They still need a receptacle in the form of a document…With RSS and Ajax, you essentially track clicks and site interaction, which means taking a measure of your site’s usability instead of an in-depth traffic analysis.
assprophetSep 15, 2006
Let's work on our condescending use of the word "let's"
electronicmajiSep 15, 2006
grammar is in constant flux as is the internet. Grammar nazis! Adapt to the flux or perish like the rest of the world!
powerf00Sep 15, 2006
AJAX is powerful and useful to web developers and users like you. At least explain what you mean when making a blanket statement like this.
squegieSep 15, 2006
If you don't like your visitors using your RSS feed, can't you just stop providing the RSS feed?
manfrinSep 15, 2006
Hits = loads of a file on the server, including images.No one measures traffic with hits, it's measured in 'visits' or 'pageviews'. Hits is completley irrelevant and a word that stupid people use when theyshould be saying 'pageviews'.
linuxpenguinSep 15, 2006
Hits are very relevant for sites that don't depend on the user for revenue (for example, Digg, Slashdot, or any other site you don't pay for yet somehow makes money through ads and stuff). Why? Because they depend on having users come to their site and see the advertisements (not all ads are pay-per-click, FYI).They're also important for other sites in that you can't have online customers if no one visits your site. You can have the greatest deals on Earth if no one visits your site. Also, more visitors means more potential clicks which is something that might attract businesses to advertise on your site.
aaroncampbellSep 15, 2006
On almost any ajax page, you can still track "hits" as well as "actions" (which used to be hits because they refreshed the page). These AJAX pages still have to request data from the server. To do thi they usually submit some info to a server-side page...and that "hit" is registered...it's just registered to the background script, and not the AJAX page.
glenfiddichSep 15, 2006
RSS and Ajax are two tools that work great together when it comes to publishing content. They still need a receptacle in the form of a document…With RSS and Ajax, you essentially track clicks and site interaction, which means taking a measure of your site’s usability instead of an in-depth traffic analysis.