At 7PM EST, the new day begins as this is midnight GMT. Like this:
01:00 (8PM EST) you have had one visitor in the last hour.
08:00 (3AM EST) you have had 8 visitors in the last 8 hours.
13:00 (8AM EST) you have had 13 visitors in the last 13 hours.
Again though, these numbers are fairly meaningless. If you visit the home page, that is one visit from you and one visit from TrendMicro. Click on a forum and that is still one visit from you and now two visits from TrendMicro. Open a topic and that remains one visit from you and three visits from TrendMicro ... and so on. It is not like TrendMicro use the same IP all the time, it changes all the time.
In that count are also spiders like Google, Bing, Yahoo, AlexaBot, Exabot, etc.
Then, there will likely be a time-out period. I have no clue what this may be set to on yuku but commonly it is half an hour. Say I visit at 1PM and look at a few pages, that is one visit. If I return after the elapsed period of time, I am still the same "visitor" but yet I am having another "visit".
If that is the range of numbers for a day, the site is practically dead. What you need to do is get the numbers just BEFORE 7PM EST and that number will be how many you have had in the previous 24 hours.
I just had a quick glance at my stats for this board for yesterday (PST). Your IP address made 240"requests"; this number includes things like avatars and other images: it is not the number of pages. TrendMicro made 36 requests. TrendMicro does not look at images though. It will also remember what it has seen for a period of time, to help prevent over-crawling. These numbers make sense to me! If I tie that up together, and look at it from the point of view of "visits", that is 37 visits from 2 "visitors" (who is really only one person).
I can differentiate the stats like that because I am interpreting with the knowledge of how TrendMicro behaves. Without that knowledge, it looks more like 38 "visitors".Statistics: Posted by andrew — 2/07/14 02:04:51
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