This is typically how people work when they don't use a test site. Stomping means shoving several tons of stuff onto the site at once, so that everything is updated together. Dribble works for spot updates, bug fixes, and such. There we decompress it. Counting Hits Xitami produces standard NCSA-style log files that can be read and analysed by most log file analysers.
People often misuse the term 'hits' to imply that one hit is one person visting the site.
This is not true. For instance, the iMatix web site has 250,000 hits in a typical month, but about 15,000 actual visitors, or whom perhaps 2,500 stay long enough on the main page to trigger the page counter. Each page has several images as well as the HTML text, and people will read several pages. To accurately count the number of visitors to your site, you can count the number of hits to the main page. This section still needs to be completed.