UK Court Rules On Hits

[mneylon]

Sunday Business Post | Irish Business News

 

[louie]

About time someone does something about it because we all know it's totally misleading information.

 

[nevf]

About time someone does something about it because we all know it's totally misleading information.

Yep.

Total bullshít, and when people see the stats of a site, they think OMG, but really, it's visitors/unique visitors that count, and when it comes to hits, they mean sweet fúck all. But not many people know that. Hits are often the sign of an inefficient website.

 

[mneylon]

I think it's one of those hangovers from the dotcom boom. Hopefully it will go away soon, but I won't be holding my breath

Page impressions and visitors count
Hits are meaningless

 

[nevf]

When you think of it though, hits were accurate 11/12 years ago. No search bots, single pages, very few images, etc.

Now however, totally different scene.

 

[mneylon]

When you think of it though, hits were accurate 11/12 years ago. No search bots, single pages, very few images, etc.

Now however, totally different scene.

Fair point
Back in 95 most of the sites I visited were mostly text

 

[davidbehan]

Yeah, I was reading that article yesterday. Really good to hear it actually. I cringe whenever I hear "we get x amount of hits a month".

 

[mneylon]

Yeah, I was reading that article yesterday. Really good to hear it actually. I cringe whenever I hear "we get x amount of hits a month".

It's the kind of language that gets used a lot in the fluffy press releases you see

 

[louie]

I've had a similar discussion with someone few days ago, saying that some other website related to mine are reporting a lot more hits per month based on my stats, so I had a little chat educating him how that works and showed him the actual "hits" my website gets and couldn't believe it...
I just hope he understood what I told him...