| hit
Probably the most misused term in Net vocabulary, a hit can refer to any
one of a few different things. If you perform a search using Excite or
SHAREWARE.COM, the results are called hits. If you load up a Web page,
you've hit the site. However, when people say, "Our Web site had 2,000
hits" (meaning that there were 2,000 visitors, or 1,000 visitors looking
at two pages each), that's simply wrong. Technically, a hit is a request
made to the Web server. For example, if you look at a Web page that
contains ten GIF files, one person visiting one page will make 11 hits on
the server: one for the page, and ten for the graphics on the page. |