Remote host name or IP number 2. Date and time 5. If we follow the log long enough, we can begin to discern a pattern of interests for individual visitors and in the aggregate for types of visitors. If an HTML page is requested this may cause further requests for images or other embedded objects to be sent to the server.
Hits are both the easiest to grasp and the most deceptive element in the log file.
Ostensibly, the log file is the record of the number of times a page or file accessed. Just because each page or image file accessed is recorded as a hit in the log, doesn't mean each page or file should be used by the log analysis program. Each time a specific user accesses a page or file is considered a visit. Multiple visits by a single user reflects a high degree of interest in the content and presentation of the site. Frequently updated and popular sites generate multiple visits.