Analysis of your web site's usage statistics can appear quite a daunting task at first, but with a little study, stats can prove a most valuable guage of of your site's success.

Below is a very quick guide to what's in your stats package -

• Daily Statistics
  Daily usage graph for the month, below a list of the number hits, files,
  sites and how many kilobytes your website has transferred for that day.
• Hourly Statistics
  Similar to the daily statistics but providing an outlook for each hour of
  the day.
• Sites
  This lists the top 30 address names of anyone who has viewed your website.
  The information of the number of files transferred etc. is also included.
• URL's
  This section lists the top 50 most popular files in your website that people
  have downloaded.
  Clicking the link of the item will either display or download it.
• Referrers
  This section lists the top 50 most popular websites that people have clicked
  from to get to your website. This also includes if they have clicked from a
  search engine to get to your website.
  By clicking the link of the item it will take you to the page which referred
  your website.
• Agents
  This section describes the types of browser people are using to view your
  website. The version numbers and type of browser are included in this.
• Countries
  The pie chart and list below represents the geographical location of where
  users are visiting your website from.
  If a visitors location cannot be determined they are placed under the
  unresolved/unknown group.
• General Monthly Statistics
  There is also a section named 'Monthly Statistics for.' at the top of the
  screen, which provides general data for the selected month.
• Total Hits
  The total number of hits to any file on your website. (Includes graphics,
  sound files etc.)
• Total Files
  The total number of files transferred to the visitor from your website.
• Total Kbytes
  The total number of kilo bytes transferred to any visitor from your website.
• Total Unique Sites
  The number of unique sites that have visited your website. This could also
  be used to approximate the amount of unique visitors you have had visiting
  your website.
• Total Unique URL's
  The total number of unique URL's you have had this month.
• Total Unique Referrers
  The number of unique referrers you have had this month.
• Total Unique User Agents
  The total number of unique types of web browsers that have visited your
  website this month.
• Max Hits per Day
  The maximum hits to any file in a single day you have received this month.
• Avg Hits per Day
  The average amount of hits to any file you have received on each day this
  month.
• Max Hits per Hour
  The maximum hits to any file in a single hour you have received this month.
• Avg Hits per Hour
  The average amount of hits to any file you have received on each hour this
  month.
• Hits by Response Code
  This figure lists all the response codes your website has emitted in this month.