They look neat, but they really don't provide an accurate hit count. Many browsers get pages from a caching proxy server which can serve the page multiple times without hitting this server and updating the count. This report can answer some of those questions by summarizing the traffic for the last 6 months. It can't actually identify individual surfers, but it can provide information about their host address , organization , and domain . The when question is answered with reports summarizing traffic by month , day of week, and time of day .
Information is provided about the most popular pages and directories .
To figure out how people got here, the most common referring pages and referring sites are listed. And since much of the traffic is provided by search engines, the most common search queries and search words are listed. And just for curiosity, there are reports on which browsers and operating systems our visitors are using. And as mentioned above in the hit counter info, these statistics may not count the number of times some of these pages are served by caching proxy servers instead of being retrieved from this site. In addition to providing all these nifty services to people around the globe, this same machine is also keeping busy serving me .